High Performance Trends: Opportunities in a Rapidly Growing Market

Thursday, January 21 | 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Location: South 231

Format: Building Knowledge Session 
Level of Content: Intermediate 

Appropriate for: Designers, Architects, Engineers & Planners, Single Family - All, Young Professionals

Track(s): Design, Land Development & Community Planning

Speaker(s): 
Jacob Atalla, KB Home, Los Angeles, CA | 
Les Bluestone, Blue Sea Development Company, Huntington, NY | 
Stephen Jones, Dodge Data & Analytics (formerly McGraw-Hill Construction), New York, NY

What It’s About:
After a prolonged slump, residential construction is finally seeing a dramatic increase, with multifamily building growing tremendously over the last three years and single family building finally increasing back to pre-recession rates. Throughout this time, Dodge Data & Analytics in partnership with NAHB has been researching the impact of high performance in the residential marketplace as it changes from decline to growth. In this session, data and insights from the newest study, conducted in 2015, will be shared and best practices will be revealed so you can successfully design and build high performance single family and multifamily homes.

What You'll Learn:
Learn how the drivers, challenges and benefits of residential high performance design and building practices have evolved since pre-recession.
Discover the benefits builders and remodelers are reporting they have experienced by implementing high performance methods and products.
Gauge the increasing value homeowners place on healthy homes and the practices that can help respond to that expectation.
Gain knowledge of specific design and construction practices that yield strong high performance benefits in residential building projects.

Continuing Education: NAHB - 1.00 CE hour(s), NKBA - 0.1 CEU(s), AIA - 1.00 LU hour(s)