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REGREEN Online Green Home Renovation Resources for Homeowners and Professionals

In my last post, I looked at the green home renovation guidelines published by REGREEN, a joint partnership between ASID and USGBC. Today, I’ll give a brief summary of a couple of the online tools available from REGREEN. Each of the tools can work together with the guidelines published in the booklet.

When considering a green remodel project click the Green Remodels tab on the REGREEN website. There you’ll see three subcategories: REGREEN Basics, REGREEN Projects and Case Studies.

REGREEN Basics provides a generic outline about how to begin a project broken down into four steps: Audit, Plan, Prioritize and Dig In. This is a great way to begin to think about you project from a ‘whole-house’ systems level perspective. As you look through the four steps, you’ll begin to think about how it applies to your project.

REGREEN Projects reviews nine sample projects:

• Bathroom Remodel
• Kitchen Remode
• Home Addition
• Deep Energy Retrofit
• Gut Rehab
• Home Office
• Outdoor Add-ons
• Weatherization

Project details are provided with the information organized in the following manner:

• Overview
• Case Study
• Design Approach
• Systems
• Lessons Learned
• Team & Finances

The project reviews are a great way to develop an understanding of the green home renovation process and will help you to begin to think about how to approach your project. Each review is summarized and written in a format that is easy to follow and understand. References are included for additional information.

Case Studies of 18 different green home renovation projects and project types are reviewed. Lots of pictures are included and the information is very well organized. Reviewing case studies is a great way to get ideas about your green home renovation project.

Green Strategy Generator

Another useful online tool on the REGREEN website is the Green Strategy Generator. There are three fields selected with pull down tabs: Project Name (bathroom, gut rehab, etc.), Green Topic (Indoor Air Quality, Materials and Resources, etc.) and Design Elements (Equipment, Foundation, Lighting, etc.). When the fields are selected, a group of project strategies will appear. Each strategy includes an explanation, a summary of potential issues, references and links to related strategies where applicable.

The Green Strategy Generator is a useful tool for developing an understanding about how to approach and what to expect on almost any type of green home renovation project.

REGREEN Website is an Educational Tool

The resources on the REGREEN website are an excellent way to learn about green home renovation. The REGREEN online tools combined with the green home renovation guidelines will provide you with almost everything you need to know to get started on your green home renovation project.

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