Green standard: the Research Center will manage ANSI accreditation of the Model Green Home Building Guidelines.(THE NAHB RESEARCH CENTER CORNER,American National Standards Institute)

IIn 2005, the NAHB published the Model Green Home Building Guidelines to move green building further into the mainstream and to provide a practical baseline for resource-efficient, cost-effective home building. Through a recent vote by the NAHB Construction, Codes and Standards Committee, the association is now working to obtain accreditation of the guidelines from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Once finalized, the ANSI designation will impart consensus status to the guidelines and ultimately expand efforts to promote their use within jurisdictions developing green building programs.

The guidelines were originally unveiled following a one-year …