How green building can save the housing industry
September 4th, 2009
Michelle Kaufmann’s “Smart + Wired Home”
By John F. Wasik
Green is gold. Why didn’t homebuilders get this idea? They could be building new homes again, employing millions, making inner cities and suburbs habitable and bring down the cost of housing for everyone.
Homebuilding needs to join the 21st century and apply the best, efficient technologies to lower costs and reduce energy and resource consumption. But the vast majority of homes have been built using the very best 19th-century, stick-built/balloon frame methods. That’s got to change if we want to revive the bedrock of the American Dream.
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