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The NC Healthy Built Homes Program provides a certificate for homes meeting "green home guidelines" built by residential builders who practice sustainable, high performance building strategies making the home a comfortable, healthy and affordable place that reduces energy and water usage, promotes renewable energy use and helps protect the land where the home is built.
In a HealthyBuilt Home, building materials and processes are selected to reduce pollution and the waste of natural resources during the manufacturing and construction phases and throughout the life of the home. The builder is encouraged to provide homeowner education about the high performance features of the home and provide local resources for "green" living.
Why Live in a HealthyBuilt Home?
NC HealthyBuilt Homes' vision is based on the 3 P's - people, planet and pocketbook. 'Planet' (or environmentally sensitive) building practices are integrated with the idea of enhancing the lives of people in an economical manner so it helps your monthly 'pocketbook'. Other names for HealthyBuilt: "green", "sustainable" or "high performance" building.
A NC HealthyBuilt Home is moving the North Carolina market toward:
- Lower operating costs - Lower utility bills for heating and cooling
- Increased comfort - Improved indoor air quality
- Creating lasting value - Third party review
- Building with health in mind - Lowered Environmental Impact
In 1987, the Brundtland Commission on the Environment provided a good working definition for sustainable practices, describing the concept as "meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."
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