DUAL CERTIFICATION: NATIONAL GREEN BUILDING STANDARD WITH BUILDERS CHALLENGE
The National Green Building Program is incorporating an energy efficiency label along with green building through a dual certification process.
National Green Building Certification offers certification to the ICC 700-2008 National Green Building Standard™, an ANSI-approved consensus standard that provides criteria for rating the environmental performance of residential buildings including detached and attached single-family, multi-unit and renovation projects.
The NAHB Research Center, a nationally-accredited third-party certification agency, is the sole certifier for National Green Building Certification and is a Builders Challenge Partner. Based on this existing partnership, new single-family homes that are certified Silver, Gold, or Emerald to the Standard can be concurrently certified to the Builders Challenge.
For a house to qualify for dual certification to the Standard and Builders Challenge, builders should use the free online Green Scoring Tool. Certification to the Builders Challenge requires specific Standard practices to be selected. The Green Scoring Tool simplifies the rating process by identifying the required Standard practices required for the Builders Challenge, and by providing a Builders Challenge Designer's Report as well as a real-time status notification when all of the required criteria have been selected and met.
Learn more about the Builders Challenge dual certification in this technical bulletin from the U.S. Department of Energy.
National Green Building Certification offers certification to the ICC 700-2008 National Green Building Standard™, an ANSI-approved consensus standard that provides criteria for rating the environmental performance of residential buildings including detached and attached single-family, multi-unit and renovation projects.
The NAHB Research Center, a nationally-accredited third-party certification agency, is the sole certifier for National Green Building Certification and is a Builders Challenge Partner. Based on this existing partnership, new single-family homes that are certified Silver, Gold, or Emerald to the Standard can be concurrently certified to the Builders Challenge.
For a house to qualify for dual certification to the Standard and Builders Challenge, builders should use the free online Green Scoring Tool. Certification to the Builders Challenge requires specific Standard practices to be selected. The Green Scoring Tool simplifies the rating process by identifying the required Standard practices required for the Builders Challenge, and by providing a Builders Challenge Designer's Report as well as a real-time status notification when all of the required criteria have been selected and met.
Learn more about the Builders Challenge dual certification in this technical bulletin from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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