Aug 22 2005
Home builders eager to expand into one of the fastest-growing segments of the new-homes market will gather in Albuquerque, N.M., to network and learn at the 2006 National Green Building Conference, March 12-14.
Hosted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the conference will help builders meet the increased consumer demand for resource-efficient, environmentally sensitive and affordable new homes.
“Builders in Albuquerque have already made significant progress in developing an impressive number of green-built homes,” said Ray Tonjes, chairman of NAHB’s Green Building Subcommittee and a home builder from Austin, Texas.
“We are thrilled to highlight the work of local green builders, as well as homes built in accordance with NAHB’s voluntary Model Green Home Building Guidelines, as more and more of our members start to build green.”
The conference, with a theme of “Greening the American Dream,” will provide a forum for attendees to network with like-minded colleagues and attend high-caliber educational sessions on green building topics. Sessions will address building science, design, marketing and other subjects for both green building specialists and mainstream home builders, many of whom are already incorporating green building methods and materials into their construction practices. Builders can also learn about NAHB’s voluntary Model Green Home Building Guidelines, developed to encourage market-driven green home building practices and the formation of additional local programs by home builders associations in parts of the country not currently served by ongoing initiatives.
All educational sessions will take place March 12-14 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Conference attendees will also have the opportunity to tour numerous green home building projects throughout the Albuquerque area. NAHB invites home builders, remodelers, developers, nonprofits, academics, industry experts and others engaged in green building to submit program proposals for consideration as sessions at the 2006 National Green Building Conference.
To do so, please visit http://www.nahb.org/isesProgram_select.aspx. The deadline is Sept. 9, 2005. More information on the National Green Building Conference is available at www.nahb.org/greenbuilding. To learn more about NAHB’s Model Green Home Building Guidelines, go to www.nahb.org/gbg.