Dive Summary:
- Rick Schwolsky, the editor in chief of EcoHome magazine, talks to the Chicago Tribune about green building trends and selecting winners for the annual EcoHome Design Awards.
- He says that out 120 entries this year, custom homes stood out and are still models and testing grounds for the rest of the residential building industry.
- He also predicts that building codes will drive down green building prices in some areas.
From the article:
Once considered eccentric and dowdy, not to mention expensive, green homebuilding's looks have gotten a makeover as it creeps closer to mainstream housing.
Sure, with the real estate recession still taking a toll on building of all kinds of homes, there's not a lot of it out there. But green is no longer the Plain Jane of homebuilding. Plus, environmentally friendly building techniques are showing up more frequently in multifamily and affordable building, not just custom homes, according to Rick Schwolsky, editor in chief of EcoHome magazine, which focuses on green building products and practices. ...
