NAHB Research Center Announces 2,000th Certified Project

The NAHB Research Center announced last week their 2,000th Green Certified Project in the Nation. Certified projects are almost all single family homes, but they also include remodeling, multifamily projects and site certifications such as this one. Congrats to the NAHB Research Center and the developer of this project in Cecil County Maryland. The link to the article is below.

We are happy to see the National Green Building Certification Program explode, a worthy accomplishment which is helping to support the housing economy. Of course here in Delaware, we have a lot of green to brag about. Our HBADE created the Green for Green homebuyer rebate program in conjunction with State DNREC officials. Delaware ranks #1 on a per-capita basis for the number of certified green homes in the nation. And while our many fine builders and clients in Delaware are embracing green, just last April Bestfield Homes in Delaware achieved the 1,000th certified green home project in the nation.

LandmarkJCM is happy to help all our clients build green, we are the most experienced Accredited Verifiers in Delaware. We're always happy to tell you about it, call Howard Fortunato at 302-323-9377 for information.

2,000th Green Certified Project link: http://www.nahbrc.com/news/pressreleases/rc_20110214.aspx

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!

Bestfield Homes Captures the 1,000th Green Certified Homes Mark

We are proud to announce that a new Bestfield Homes home in Willowwood, Smyrna has earned the distinction of being the 1,000th new home to be certified green in the Nation under the National Green Building Program!

Congrats to Scott Bradley, Guy Waites, Tony DiEgidio and Dan Martelli and the entire staff for earning this distinction late last week!

Read about it here in Nation's Building News: http://www.nbnnews.com/NBN/issues/2010-05-03/Green+Building/2.html

We are happy to have helped Bestfield earn this distinction, and proud to partner with them and all our green building clients as we continue to provide new home opportunities for more and more buyers of green homes.

Bestfield Homes Green Home Open House

I was able to join Bestfield Homes yesterday at their Fairways at Odessa National model while they headlined green and their green certified homes. It was a good session and a nice day, probably a dozen or so couples came in to see the homes, take advantage of the free BBQ cookout and water ice Bestfield provided, and take away an appreciation about green homes. Most of the folks appreciated learning about green certified homes and I think some of the sales traffic will likely buy a home from Bestfield. It seems like more and more people are learning about green and the NAHB green building certification program.