What Is a Net Zero Ready Home?

Green Built Homes

Net Zero Ready is a separate designation available to any home certified under the Green Built Homes Program. Net Zero Ready homes, in addition to all other Green Built Homes criteria, have taken extra steps to allow the home to add renewable energy more easily in the future, even if...

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Green Building Features in the 2022 Asheville Parade of Homes

Green Built Homes

The first two weekends in October just featured our local Homebuilders Association's 41st annual Parade of Homes. In the parade, builders (and their clients) open up recent projects for public (or sometimes, in the COVID-19 era, virtual) touring, to show off their craftsmanship and design offerings. Green building practices are...

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What is A Net Zero Energy Home?

Green Built Homes

Certified Green Built Homes are just better for you and the environment. Homes that are allowed to earn this label are verified (via science-backed inspection and testing protocols) to contain features, and be built using building practices, that reduce the home's energy and water use, improve indoor air quality, protect...

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What’s In a Green Built Home? A Guide for Homeowners

Green Built Homes

The Green Built Homes program is now over 20 years old. Under our program's original name: Healthy-Built Homes, we certified our first home in NC in 2002 and now, in 2022, have certified over 2700. But many people still contact the Green Built Alliance to ask: what does it actually...

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Duke Expands RNC Rebate into Duke Carolinas Territory

Green Built Homes

We’ve been waiting for this good news for years. Recently, Duke Energy announced that they were expanding their generous rebate for new energy efficient homes into all North Carolina’s Duke Energy Carolinas service territories. Participating builders can earn up to $6,000 per home. This is excellent news, as the Duke...

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Share Your Projects and Expertise in 2022 Green Building Directory

Nonprofit news

We are starting the process of planning our 2022 Green Building Directory. With 25,000 copies distributed at 100 spots throughout Western North Carolina, our directory is a great way to share your company's unique offerings in the broader community as well as market your brand for high visibility in a...

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GBA Issues 2 RFPs for Solar Installers and HVAC Contractors

Nonprofit news

A family with two young children who is getting their heat repaired.

Green Built Alliance has issued two Requests for Proposals in February to invite solar installers and HVAC contractors to bid on upcoming projects that reduce the energy burden of vulnerable residents in Buncombe County. Through these two projects that decrease energy consumption and increase clean-energy production, Green Built Alliance aims...

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Our 2021 Year in Review: Adaptation and Achievement

Nonprofit news

Green Built Alliance's 20th Anniversary Badge

Happy Holidays from Our Team to Yours Adaptation has continued to be the name of the game this year, and we've been grateful for the ability to continue expanding our reach and deepening our impact thanks to our community's partnership and support during these unusual times. See the year-in-review module...

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Local School Gets Solar Makeover Thanks to Appalachian Offsets

Leigha Dickens

4 construction workers installing solar panels.

Earlier this fall, I attended the switch-flipping ceremony for the new solar array at Isaac Dickson Elementary School. Consisting of 300 kilowatts of solar photovoltaic panels, the project was six years in the making, and is estimated to save the school more than $30,000 a year in energy bills–money that...

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Two Local Green Builders Win National Housing Innovation Awards

Member news

An award winning home manufactured in Asheville by Deltec Homes, a GBA member.

Two local Asheville green builders were selected to receive the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) prestigious Housing Innovation Award this year. Asheville joins cities such as Denver and Seattle with multiple award winners this year. The award recognizes U.S. builders deemed experts in the field of high-performance, energy-efficient homebuilding and...

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