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Two Local Green Builders Win National Housing Innovation Awards

Member news
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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Invest a Few Minutes Today to Improve Future Building Codes

Nonprofit news
Our friends at North Carolina Building Performance Association are leading a campaign to nominate two building-performance professionals to fill key seats on the state's Building Code Council. NCBPA is advocating for one of our longtime members and close partners, Amy Musser of Vandemusser Design, to join the council, along with Chris Berg...

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GBA Fall 2020 Workshop Series Offers Continuing-Ed Credit

Nonprofit news
Green Built Alliance has curated a workshop series to fulfill all six elective hours required by the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors, as well as being eligible for credit through the American Institute of Architects and certain other trade organizations. With discounts for members and free equitable access...

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Buying a room air filter

Amy Musser
I've had a lot of friends reach out recently asking about room air filters and whether they should buy one as a strategy for the COVID pandemic. In this blog, I'll put together my current advice on how to buy a room air filter. First, should you buy one?  Well,...

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Building an Anti-Racist Community Together

Nonprofit news
The world of green building can seem blindingly white, and Green Built Alliance is actively engaged in the work of changing that. While our programs have made commitments toward equity and our staff has participated in numerous training sessions around diversity and inclusion in recent years, we have not done...

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