Hot off the presses

For the past three years I have been volunteering with a local not for profit organization, the Home B.A.S.E. foundation and assisting will all aspects as it relates to design and construction of a LEED for Homes Pilot project.  We just received our certification, (post to come shortly) however we just received word that through the Real Estate & Construction Review, we have been chosen as one of the best new green projects in the Midwest region.  The teams hard work is starting to pay off.  So read the press release below the fold and watch for my upcoming post that will announce the projects official LEED rating as well as dig into some of the techniques that were used to make this a successful project.

Read the rest of this entry »

Volunteering projects finally coming to life

Well September is off to a great start so far. Last week I was informed that the LEED home that I have been volunteering so much of time for will be featured on this years central Ohio solar tour and Green Energy Ohio (GEO) will be hosting a Gala at the Governors mansion. Which I have been invited to attend because of my involvement on this project. You can see a picture of the home on this issue of GEO’s quarterly magazine. http://www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=1967

Other good news that I recieved is that tomorrow after 2 long years of waiting, 3 more LEED homes will begin construction up in Cleveland. A ground breaking ceremony will held tomorrow (09/09/08).

http://www.cclandtrust.org/News.asp?id=80

These homes were created as a result of the Emerging Green Designers Symposium hosted by the Cleveland Green Building Coalition (http://www.symhome.net/php/clevelandgreencoalition.php). So with these 3 homes under construction, that will make a total of 4 green/high performance homes that have been built as a result of this Symposium. I am hoping to receive pictures from James Ptacek, who is the one that designed one of the homes that will be constructed as well as worked with the organizations involved to create the construction documents.

-Josh