LEED Oceanfront home rolls along
Tresor Properties held it’s ground breaking ceremony back in July of 2009 announcing it’s goal of becoming the 1st or one of few oceanfront LEED Platinum homes in California. Designed by local architect Mark Singer, today the 2 home development is rolling right along with some wildly innovative features relating energy management, water heating, storm ...
LEED Open House at Depot Walk
WHAT: Join the U.S. Green Building Council Orange County Chapter for our first public open house at Orange County’s 1st LEED Certified residential building, Depot Walk. Designed by William Hezmalhalch Architects Inc and built by Olson Homes, this cutting edge, unique community is comprised of 32 townhomes which steps to a public rail station and ...
AirLab’s new do-it-yourself test kit
While taking my annual tour of my favorite green building expo in Southern California, Santa Monica’s Alt Build Expo, a few new exhibitors caught my eye. Both very timely to the needs of the green building movement and needs. Recently, I’ve been researching some of the test kits and services available to homeowners for a ...
HOAs cannot prohibit water efficent landscaping
“Effective January 1, 2010, Assembly Bill 1061 makes any provision of the governing documents of a common interest development void and unenforceable if it prohibits the use of low water-using plants as a group, or if it has the effect of prohibiting or restricting compliance with a local water-efficient landscape ordinance or water conservation measure. ...
City of Irvine awarded $2.28 million
Just like she said, Chandra Krout will waste no time spending the $2.28 million dollars the City of Irvine was recently awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy to improve the energy efficiency of the City’s buildings and municipal infrastructure. Currently, Irvine has four RFP’s available to download ...
