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Solargon - “The Passive Solar Smart Cabin” is an energy saving octagonal structure designed to take full advantage of the sun. Due to the smart placement of the southern facing windows and its material-saving octagonal shape, this cabin earns huge energy savings. Built with Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), the cabin easily assembles in a matter of hours. SIPs extreme insulation wall and roof systems are manufactured by Insulated Component Structures (ICS Eco-SIPs) in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Introduced in 1995, Built Green Colorado is one of oldest and largest green home building programs in the nation.RSS A voluntary industry-driven program of the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver offered to builders across the state, the purpose of Built Green Colorado is to encourage home builders to use technologies, products and practices that result in homes that are better built and better for the environment.
ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate through superior energy efficiency.
Founded in 1942, the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver is a professional trade organization that represents homebuilders, developers, remodelers, architects, mortgage lenders, title companies, subcontractors, suppliers and service providers in the eight metro-area counties we serve. HBA members are also members of the Colorado Association of Home Builders and the National Association of Home Builders.
Previously the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, PATH is now an online resource for homeowners and homebuyers, the homebuilding industry and federal agencies. PATH catalogs the best resources on advanced building technologies and practices to emerge from the decade-long public-private partnership, which ended in 2008.
The Colorado Green Building Guild is a non-profit trade organization representing a wide range of green building leaders.
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and its community are changing the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated. We believe in better buildings; places that complement our environment and enhance our communities. Places that give people better, brighter, healthier spaces to live, work and play.