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100khouse.com - 12/21/2008
The Cost of Polishing a Turd | 100K House Blog
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In an interview a few weeks ago I was asked what our premium was for building LEED Platinum. The reporter had done some research and found that the highest level of LEED for Homes usually carried a 15-20% markup and wanted to know what the added cost was for our project. It was a difficult ...
33 Stunning LEED Platinum Projects
jetsongreen.com - 12/26/2008
33 Stunning LEED Platinum Projects
— jetsongreen.com — There's so much innovation in the green building space, it's pretty hard to keep up with it... all.  I mean, check out these articles below.  In the past year alone, we've discussed at least thirty-three different LEED Platinum projects -- ... (more) 33 Stunning LEED Platinum Projects

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Polished Turds, Economic Opportunity, Golden Era, + GSA Green Buildings
Green Building : Jetson Green — ... Top 3 sustainability trends for 2009. The cost of polishing a turd. Green building economic opportunity in the wings. Sustainability already high on GSA priority list.  Green glass buildings lead to fatal bird collisions. Get ready for a 'golden era' of green building. Sustainability emerges as a business model. Blogs worth reading: Green Building Law Update + Bright Green Blog. ...

Quote of the Day: Building Green Houses is Like "Polishing a Turd"
TreeHugger — Nic Darling of the 100K house project was asked why houses designed to LEED standards cost more than normal houses and responded that, well, actually, they don't have to, and that they were building a LEED Platinum house that was going to cost less. ...

Polishing turds is expensive
Grist - the Latest from Grist — By JMG Great piece on why LEED-certified houses typically come at a premium. (h/t Sam Smith) ...

Housing & urban design - Jan 4
Energy Bulletin - — ... on new types of cement, there were also problems. "The reality is that the geological availability, and global distribution, of suitable natural resources, coupled with the extensive validation needed to confirm fitness-for-purpose, make it highly unlikely that these cements will a be realistic alternative for volume building." Vlasopoulos responded that magnesium silicates are abundant worldwide, with 10,000 billion tonnes available, according to some estimates. (31 December 2008) The Cost of Polishing a Turd Nic Darling, 100K House Blog ... Most of the builders and ...

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