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LISC Publishes Green Guides for Building Energy Star Qualified Homes and for Rehab Projects

The Green Development Center at LISC, in partnership with the EPA, has developed an online guide to building ENERGY STAR Qualified Homes. The guide is intended to help nonprofit developers build better and greener projects using ENERGY STAR guidelines as a start.

The site covers topics such as "Why ENERGY STAR?", "What makes an ENERGY STAR Qualified Home?", "Getting a Project Done Right" and "Top Three Design Concerns."

The San Francisco Bay Area LISC office also published a Green Guide to Rehab, an in-depth tool designed to help affordable housing owners and their consultants integrate green building and energy efficiency into the upgrades of their multifamily properties. The guide may be downloaded for free.

The 58-page guide contains four sections – site condition and systems, building construction, mechanical systems and interior spaces – with advice on incorporating the green building principles of energy efficiency, water conservation, resource conservation, and healthy indoor environments. It also looks at the cost and cost-effectiveness of green strategies to assist affordable housing developers in making decisions about which measures to include in their rehab projects.

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