2009 Media Releases & Alerts
First Home Certified to National Green Building Standard™ Featured on ABC's Extreme
Makeover: Home Edition
March 23, 2009, Upper Marlboro, Md. - The Bell family house, which was
featured on ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition last night, was the
first home in the country certified by the NAHB Research Center to the
ICC-700-2008 National Green Building Standard™.
John Wesley Miller, a long-time Tucson-based green builder who built the new
dream home for the Bell family, said "it became a religious experience" for the
team who worked tirelessly to get the home ready for the televised reveal.
Understanding that the Bell family, especially their 14-year-old daughter
Lizzie whose immune system is significantly compromised by a rare blood
disease, needed a peaceful, safe, and healthy environment to call home, the
design and construction team knew they wanted this house to be "green" in every
sense of the word. To that end, the EM:HE producers and Miller were determined
to have it certified to the National Green Building Standard, a consensus-based
ANSI standard that is the most credible definition of green for the home
building industry.
The project's architect, Henry (Hank) Krzysik, is an
accredited verifier for the NAHB Research Center’s
National Green Building Certification and verified this home. While
going through the scrutiny of two verification inspections – once during
construction and once when the home was complete – to ensure that every point
claimed was visually inspected by the verifier, added another layer to the
already challenging non-stop construction schedule, participants said they
wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Since February 2008, the NAHB Research Center has been administering National
Green Building Certification using the NAHB Model Green Home Building
Guidelines as its scoring platform; the option to have a project scored to the
National Green Building Standard became available when the Standard was
approved by ANSI in January 2009. For more information on National Green
Building Certification and the National Green Building Standard,
visit the NAHBGreen website.
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