BRAC Know Before You Go Expo

This past weekend JCM Environmental was again the Signature Sponsor for the Know Before You Go Expo – Part 2 at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey. The Expo was to assist the thousands of transferees in learning more about the Delaware and Maryland area prior to their move prior to September 2011.

JCM Environmental teamed with 8 of our Green Building clients to educate the transferees about the value of buying a green built home. We also educated them on the value of an NAHB green home certification in order to ensure that the home they are buying is really green. The participating builders were: Bestfield Homes, Blenheim Homes, Cornell Homes, Empire Builders, Reybold Development, RC Peoples, Silverstock Builders, and Thompson Homes.

Several JCM Employees attended and manned the Expo booths, along with builder representatives. Everyone we talked to was a transferee and was making the move from New Jersey to either Maryland or Delaware. We estimate at least 500 people attended this Expo and received exposure to green building and our client’s communities.

JCM also made numerous great connections with the Expo host Cecil County Chamber of Commerce staff members, new builders, Realtors, government officials and others at the Expo.

For more information, please contact Howard Fortunato at howard@jcmenv.com or visit http://www.jcmenv.com/ for more information.

JCM Presents Green Building to Eastern Shore (MD) BIA

Wednesday night Jim McCulley, Joe Gordon and I were assisted by Bob Thornton (Silverstock Builders) in a presentation to the Eastern Shore Building Industry Association at their dinner meeting. We were their guest speakers to introduce green and the NAHB green building program to their members (NAHB had given them our name as a speaker). And what an introduction to green it turned out to be!

The 40 or so members at the meeting were all very passionate about their feelings and questions and this provided for lively discussion and interaction. Heretofore they mostly had not heard any of this firsthand. (In effect we were first responders, much like the meeting was in a restaurant previously a firehouse for first responders.) We first explained what green is and is not, then Bob Thornton described his positive experiences with the benefits he has seen by building green and having built the first NAHB Gold Certified home in the Nation since the program began. Then we provided a surface explanation about how a builder builds green and gets their homes certified by the NAHB Research Center. Finally we concluded the presentation with details as to how their Association can become affiliated with NAHB Green, and the benefits of forming a Green Building Council.

A great deal of the comments and questions were related to identifying how a builder figures out the cost to build green, and how to translate the benefits of green building to prospective new buyers. The session will help us refine future presentations to more clearly address these questions. While we hope we will soon hear from some of the attendees as they consider implementing green building, we are equally excited they may use our help to initiate the NAHB Affiliation and Green Building Council route, same as we did 18 months ago in Delaware.

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.

Builder Magazine Again

The latest issue of Builder Magazine features a story on Green Building and spotlights Bob Thornton and Silver Woods. See it at the link below on page 55.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/hanleywood/builder_200901/index.php

For more information, contact us at www.jcmenv.com

IBS Photo Book Posted

The photo book that Bob Thornton will be passing out at the International Builder's Show in Las Vegas is now posted at our website.

If you are interested you can visit:

http://jcmenv.com/IBSPhoto.ppt

You will be given the option to open in your browser or save it and open with powerpoint. If you need a powerpoint viewer, there is a link to a free viewer on our website at www.jcmenv.com on the Green Building page (just click the IBS link at the top).

For more information contact Howard Fortunato at howard@jcmenv.com or (302) 737-9335 X306.