Home Depot and USGBC Announce Partnership and New Website
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Home Depot recently announced a partnership and launched a new website to capitalize on the booming green housing market
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and Home Depot recently announced a partnership and launched a new website. The partnership is a result of the booming green housing market, which has tripled over the past four years. The USGBC estimates by 2016 that up to 38 percent of the housing market will be made up of new green homes, reports Barbara Summers. The website, which is a microsite on homedepot.com, is an online product database geared towards homeowners and builders attempting to accumulate LEED points for green building projects.
The website helps simplify the complicated LEED certification process by identifying Home Depot products that meet LEED standards, Summers writes. The site contains more than 2,500 products that are broken down into more than 20 product categories and the number of LEED points. Although building a LEED certified home requires a lot more that picking out eco-friendly products, this partnership is one more step toward making the complicated process a little easier.
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