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Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes

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Author: Jeannie Leggett Sikora
Format: Softcover
Copyright: 2002
Pages: 108

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Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes provides information on planning an energy- and resource-efficient design, how to build with energy- and resource efficient construction, and how to market your homes as energy-efficient. Emphasis is on technique: How to minimize building loads, improve indoor air quality, and maximize solar energy use. Explains alternative wall systems, insulation techniques, duct design, window selection, lighting alternatives, HVAC energy solutions, solar water heater and heat recovery ventilation. You'll find new and unique solutions to job site waste as well as learn the truth on cutting-edge technologies that you can offer your customers.

Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center's resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked with past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, from choosing building products through marketing energy efficient houses.

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes gives you a first-hand look at the energy efficient options that are working for your colleagues.

Discover what energy conscious award winning builders are doing.
Get marketing tips from experienced sales professionals.
Discover innovative energy efficient features.
Read about successful techniques for building a niche market.
Get contact information and resource lists for more information on energy efficient home building.

The NAHB Research Center is the research and development leader in the home building industry, dedicated to advancing housing technology and enhancing housing affordability for the benefit of all Americans. Federal, state, and local government agencies, manufacturers, builders, and remodelers rely on the expertise and objectivity that are at the very heart of the Research Center. The NAHB Research Center is on the cutting edge of housing research, always striving to solve today's problems and advance tomorrow's housing.

Also includes a complete chapter on ideas for marketing energy- and resource-efficient homes.

About the Author
Jeannie Leggett Sikora has worked at the NAHB Research Center as a research engineer since 1997. Her primary focus is improving energy efficiency and promoting the use of renewable energy in new homes. Prior to working at the NAHB Research Center, Ms. Sikora served as an educator in the dairy industry at the University of Wisconsin and Penn State; first developing outreach materials about on-farm biogas production at Penn State and subsequently working in Wisconsin with dairy farmers and dairy processors to increase energy efficiency in the industry. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Lehigh University and a Master of Science degree from Penn State. Ms. Sikora resides in Annapolis, Maryland, with her husband and son.

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