Three recent studies address energy efficiency and home ownership bode well for significant changes to the way buyers finance home purchases.
Vision 2020 chair Robert Sahadi explains how we’re in a paradigm shift regarding energy efficiency and how long-term strategies will move the market toward full valuation of these efforts.
Documentation is the key to creating value in the existing housing stock.
DuPont’s Laura Dwyer shares her three critical ingredients for building a more sustainable future.
Market Transformation chair Cliff Majersik says the drive to broader markets will be fueled by increased code compliance and the transformation of appraisal and finance processes.
A growing number of nonprofit messaging and marketing organizations focus on delivering the message of energy efficiency and climate change to the Hispanic population.
Steven Winter shares his wisdom on how we can get to net zero and beyond.
New California research shows third-party labeled homes sell for more.
New analysis provides a glimpse into three future energy scenarios based on the ambitions of today's policy decisions.
As an early leader in net-zero production homes, KB Home is paving the way toward affordable–even cost-neutral–high-performance features.
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Video explores economic shifts required to change course toward sustainability.
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Financing for Multifamily Retrofits
Living Cities, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation study demonstrates energy and financial savings from multifamily project upgrades in New York.
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New study says updates to national efficiency standards can provide substantial financial and environmental benefits.
New green product database communicates sustainability at the retail level.
As vice president of energy efficiency and sustainability at Top 10 production home builder Meritage Homes, Herro has led his company’s mission to bring high-performance homes into the marketplace, and sell them.
DOE Building Technologies Program chief architect Sam Rashkin reflects on his experience growing the Energy Star program in the U.S. and what lessons it brings, similarly, to the growth of the Passive House Standard in the nation’s building market.
As vice president for Residential Market Development for the USGBC’s LEED for Homes program, Nate Kredich has a unique perspective on the path toward market transformation for high-performance homes.
Analysis shows that legislation could increase market transformation by 2% in 2013 and create 25% sustained levels by 2020.
IMT estimates that every dollar spent on energy code compliance and enforcement yields $6 in energy savings.
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Here’s the good news: 37% of all new homes sold in 2010 were HERS rated--a substantial jump from a mere 12.2% in 2008. Of course, there are a lot fewer homes being built these days, but as Cliff Majersik at the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) points out, the figures still represent a...