Congratulations 2012 HBADE Board

Congratulations to all our clients and friends that were officially sworn in last Saturday night as the new Officers and Directors of the Home Builders Association of Delaware. Everyone looked sharp as tuxedo's were the call of the evening for gents, formal gowns for the ladies.

Special congratulations to Fred Fortunato of Benchmark Builders as the new President for 2012. This is a special honor for us since Fred joins the list of second generation families to serve as President. Steven L. Fortunato, father of Fred and this blogger, was President of HBADE in 1970.

It is an honor to be part of HBADE, an association of builders and associate members looking to further the interests of housing in Delaware.

Congratulations to our Regal Award Winning Clients!

LandmarkJCM congratulates all of the 2010 Regal Awards winners at the Home Builders Association of Delaware's 19th Annual Regal Awards ceremony on May 6, 2011 at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino!

LandmarkJCM's NGBS Accredited Verifiers are ecstatic to have worked with these builders on their green-built home projects!

Congratulations on your Regal Awards:

Benchmark Builders
Building A Brighter Future, LLC
Echelon Custom Homes
J.S. Hovnanian & Sons *
Insight Homes
LC Homes
Schell Brothers *
Zero Energy

* Congratulations to staffing award winners

LandmarkJCM was happy to win a Regal Award for the Best Associate Logo!

For a listing of all of the winners - including our clients and those we'd like to work with - and their spectacular projects and efforts that won Regal Awards, click: complete listing.

CONGRATS REGAL AWARD WINNERS ! ! !

Congrats to all the winners but especially we would like to congratulate our friends and clients, having won numerous awards Friday night at the Regal Awards presentation, sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Delaware. Each of these firms won at least one award:


Benchmark Builders
Bestfield Homes
Layton Builders
LC Homes
Regal Builders
Reybold Development Corporation


In particular we would like to recognize and congratulate Layton Builders for the Best Green Built Home under 2,500 square feet, and Lance Manlove for Project/Production Manager of the Year for a Custom Builder.


Congrats again to all!

More Green Building Press

The Delaware Business Ledger ran a story about the success of Green Homebuilding in Delaware. See the article here:

http://ledgerdelaware.com/articles/2009/02/19/news/doc499dc74eb3f15668529525.txt

Congratulations Silverstock Builders, Benchmark Builders, J.S. Hovnanian and Thompson Homes on your success in Green Building, we were glad to be a part of it!

www.jcmenv.com to learn more.

Benchmark Builders Joins Green!

We are pleased to congratulate Benchmark Builders, homebuilders of the Villages of Eastridge in Clayton Delaware. They recently received Bronze Certification of one of their homes, awarded by the National Association of Homebuilders Green Building Program. They are first "Bronze Green Home" in Kent County, and first Bronze Certified Home in Delaware under the NAHB Green Building Guidelines.

We are proud they have chosen to build green and to add them to our growing list of green-building clients. Having just returned from the NAHB convention last week, its clear that green building is becoming much more dominant across the country and we’re pleased that Benchmark, along with our other clients, are on the leading edge of green building.

International Builder's Show - Sunday

Bob Thornton and I just got back from the NAHB Green Building Subcommittee Meeting which was held at the Convention Center in advance of the show.

Part of the meeting was a powerpoint presentation by Calli Schmidt from the NAHB Public Relations Department. Her presentation was on the positive press coverage that NAHB has gotten about Green Building in the last year.

She showed the News Journal Article about Thompson Homes, she showed a clip from Bob Thornton’s interview on WHYY TV and she showed Benchmark Builders brochure and mentioned that all of the projects were in Delaware. She mentioned that Delaware had a Certified home in each county and was the first State to reach such a milestone. She then mentioned that JCM Environmental had been the verifier for all of the Delaware homes!!! WOW!

After the meeting we talked to some of the NAHB staff and introduced ourselves and they all asked the same question….Where is Howard? JCM and Howard have made quite a name for ourselves with NAHB with regard to Green Building……it is great to be on the cutting edge of this movement.