Surely Green Circle Guide

Whew! It's good to be back in the blog saddle. For the past three months I've been assembling key team members and working on The SURELY GREEN CIRCLE Residential Remodeling Guidelines that have been made possible only through the efforts of many dedicated volunteers, staff members, and others in the ASID and USGBC community. As a USGBC member of the Green Building Committee it's my intention to educate the end user on the scope of green remodeling & new construction guidelines that have emerged from conversations occurring among a variety of residential building experts of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Whole-House, Systems-Thinking Approach…
It is easy and tempting to boil down green building to simply product selections and glide over or even ignore the challenges of green building as a process. The SURELY GREEN CIRCLE Program and the SURELY GREEN CIRCLE Residential Remodeling Guidelines are about products and process, about synergies and unintended consequences. In green building, it is rarely a single product or building component or a collection of attributes that results in a building’s being labeled “green.” Green building is almost always about how systems work together to reduce environmental impacts. In the SURELY GREEN CIRCLE guidelines, systems thinking and integration are encouraged by the cross-listing of strategies by project and environmental category, as well as by the “potential issues”. Want to know more...