Residential Green Building Committee

The Residential Green Building Committee is the newest Committee of the Chapter! Congratulations to the leadership who have worked so hard to establish this group over the last year.

The committee’s objectives are to work to raise the awareness of the benefits of residential green building and remodeling and to increase the quantity of projects registering for LEED for Homes. The committee, through education and outreach, will focus on the following:

• Hold across MA, Lunch and LEED, education sessions and tours on topics such as Zero Net Energy, Deep Energy Retrofits and REGREEN
• Help the community understand and implement LEED for Homes and residential green building, remodeling and retrofits
• Ensure that our target markets are aware of available green building tools and resources
• Partner with other Green Building Programs
• Establish a collaborative relationship with a professional and/or community organizations
• Develop case studies and green residential building content for the USGBC MA website

Meetings

The commitee will meet monthly. The meetings are typically held from 5:30 - 7:30 pm on or about the second Monday of the month:

January 9th, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

February 13, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

March 12, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

April 9, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

May 14, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

June 11, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

July 9, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

August 13, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

September 10, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

October 8, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

November 12, 2012 - USGBC MA Office, 281 Summer Street, 5th floor, Boston, 02210

Please contact Bill Holland (wm.holland@gmail.com) if you are interested in joining this committee or plan on attending an upcoming meeting.

Committee Members

Below is a listing of each of the members of the Residential Green Building Committee. Each of these members has affirmed that they will actively participate in the efforts of the Residential Green Building Committee and seek to achieve the goals stated in this Annual Plan. The order in which the names appear below are alphabetical.

Rick Ames................. Next Phase Studios

Michael Berry...........ICF International

Ian A. Buba................ICF International

Brian Butler..............Boston Green Building

Caitriona Cooke.......Conservation Services Group

Bill Holland...............MA Department of Housing & Community Development

Greg Krantz............. Massachusetts New Homes with ENERGY STAR® program            

Jack Mackin..............Sterritt Lumber Company

Conor McGuire........Landmark Structures

Clayton Schuller.......Next Step Living