Sustainable Building Practices

A Greenstone home is less expensive to operate, healthier, and built with quality. Durable materials reduce maintenance and replacement costs. Greenstone is a proud builder of Built Green homes. Built Green is a national cooperative of regional home building programs. Regional checklists award points for materials and design choices that use less, contain recycled-content, use fewer toxic components or manufacturing processes, are produced in a sustainable manner, and last a long time.

When you buy a Built Green Certified new home you can expect:

• Improved Air Quality through well designed ventilation systems and carefully selected materials.
• Durable, Low-Maintenance Materials such as fiber cement siding and composite decking materials, and quality flooring products, require less maintenance saving you time and replacement costs.
• Implementing construction waste management plans helps to reduce excess materials and to unable various recycling channels for unused materials.
• Energy Efficiency is achieved by exceeding the building code on insulation and air sealing and by using only ENERGY STAR appliances.
• Careful construction practices and site protection reduces run-off and erosion keeping pollutants out of the water supply

Learn more about Greenstone's home building process here: The Life of Your Home (pdf)

Learn more about Inland Northwest Built Green:

http://www.builtgreenwashington.org