Author Archive for Paul
USGBC’s LEED Green Building Program Use Falls
The Allen Matkins/CTG/Green Building Insider Green Building Survey takes a poll of 1,600 design and building professionals from the U.S. every year for the last 4 years.
Not surprisingly, green construction represents the fastest growing sector of the building industry. And support for it as a practice continues to be high as 92% of those surveyed [...]
Fire Sprinklers to be Required in Many New Chicago Homes
St. Charles could possibly be one of the municipalities incorporating the new 2009 International Codes. The code mandate fire sprinklers in all new townhouses and, beginning Jan. 1, 2011, in new one and two family homes and town-homes. Each municipality in Illinois can choose whether or not to mandate fire sprinklers and undoubtedly will be a [...]
Heritage Harbor Wine Tasting Event
Heritage Harbor in Southwest suburban Ottawa is hosing a wine tasting event on Friday, April 16th at their Heritage Harbor and Quest Watersports facility. The 7th annual wine tasting event will begin at 5:30 and will wrap up around 8:30 PM on that Friday evening. The cost is $15 for the pleasure of sampling over [...]
Modular Home Construction Gets Green, Fancy And More Mainstream
For some reason, the idea of having your new home built in a climate-controlled, systematic factory setting is unappealing to the average consumer. To many, it conjures up images of assembly lines and cold, factory-like precision and monotony of identical widgets getting packaged and shipped away. Those who are more open-minded and familiar with the [...]
Chicago Tribune Festival of Homes in Full Swing
Spring 2010 brings the bi-annual Chicago Tribune Festival of Homes. For six weeks, local builders and developers are ready to show off their housing stock to thawing house hunters. This year the festival has embraced social media and can be found with a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and has it’s own YouTube channel. Tune in your social [...]
