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2010 Enrollment in Green Built Texas Is Now Available

Enrollment in the HBA’s Green Built Texas program is now available for 2010. Last year, thanks to the commitment of more than 200 members and the program’s home verification and registration process, GBT continued to be one of the nation’s most dynamic and successful green building programs. These efforts earned the program National Green Building Program of the Year honors from NAHB in 2008, and brought it to an international stage at the Greenbuild Conference, where more than 25,000 from around the world attended. 

GBT serves as an effective policy tool and is now a green building clearinghouse after forming alliances with the U.S. Green Building Council and NAHB that allow homes built to either of those national programs to also earn GBT branding. The program’s protocol now serves as a compliance path for the city of Dallas’s green building ordinance passed in April. The protocol was revised at the beginning of the year, giving it the flexibility to meet the needs of our diverse membership, while retaining the rigor necessary to satisfy the demands of policy makers.

 Builder Members Join Now  or Download PDF Invoice

 Associate Members Join Now or Download Title and Silver Partner PDF Invoice
                                                   or Download Member Partner PDF Invoice


Already a GBT Member?
Program dues and partnerships run on a 12 month billing cycle. Therefore, prior to the expiration of your membership, you will receive an invoice from the HBA that enables you to continue your participation in the program for another year.

If you are interested in upgrading your participation in Green Built Texas to a Title or Silver level partner, read the benefits of each below and contact the HBA at 972-931-4840.

Why join Green Built Texas?

Despite recent downturns in the number of housing starts, demand for environmentally preferable, green, homes continues to grow both regionally and nationally. According to NAHB, the market for green built homes is expected to double over the next five years. No place is this more true than right here in Texas, which built over 32,000 ENERGY STAR homes in 2008, easily leading the nation and the next eight leading states combined. Included in that number are the more than 1,500 homes built and verified by GBT members last year. 

This is why the HBA will continue to expand Green Built Texas, the only green building program tailored specifically for the builders in the great State of Texas. GBT’s Construction Protocol results in homes that are built to high standards of site management and waste reduction, water efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, materials and homeowner education. The protocol is flexible in that it allows builders to choose construction strategies that meet their business plan, but rigorous in that it results in a higher-performance, lower-impact home.

The program’s cost-effective verification process not only offers quality control through independent third party verifiers, but also provides builders with the unique opportunity to list their homes on one of the nation’s first interactive registries of green homes. GBT has recently expanded the capabilities of its home registry by allowing builders to enhance their listings by adding photos of their homes, contact information for sales staffs, exclusive web pages listing only their homes and allowing them to indicate which homes are for sale. GBT will continue to enhance this sales and marketing edge through its own marketing efforts to drive consumer traffic to the registry.

Associate members can choose from three distinct partnership levels with benefits proven to increase their company’s exposure to builders and consumers leading to valuable new business. All partners are listed on the innovative online Products and Services Directory, which categorizes companies by their products and expertise.

About Green Built Texas (GBT) 
Green Built Texas is a voluntary partnership of local home builders, industry supporters, and partners committed to creating awareness and interest in the construction of higher-performance, lower-impact residential homes in Texas. The program has a green building construction protocol that industry professionals have deemed essential for a home to be recognized by the program. Homes built to this protocol conform to higher standards of site management and waste recycling, water efficiency, indoor air quality, energy efficiency, materials, and homeowner education.

Membership in Green Built Texas is open to both Builder and Associate members of home builders associations in Texas. Through special events and media outreach, the program endeavors to make homebuyers more aware of its green building program and its participants. Green Built Texas also provides educational seminars and is affiliated with the National Association of Home Builders’ National Green Building ProgramTM.

The HBA's goal is to establish a green building program that is recognized by municipalities and consumers throughout the state. Green Built Texas also plans to establish a higher level of green building achievement that will allow builders to advance their building products to meet both consumer desires and their own business plans along with additional strategies for remodeling and multifamily projects. 

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Member Benefits

Builder Benefits:

Builders who enroll in Green Built Texas will receive the following benefits in 2010:

• Discounted admission to all Green Vine Lectures.

• Company listing on the Green Built Texas website.

• Exclusive access to marketing and technical support materials distributed by the HBA as   
   well as green building support from the National Association of Home Builders.

• Opportunities to meet with green building product suppliers and participate in future 
   "green built" home tours and consumer fairs.

Builders enrolled in the program who sign a Builder Agreement with a GBT Verifier are eligible to register homes built to the Construction Protocol. These builders will enjoy the following additional benefits.

• Ability to market themselves as active participants in the GBT program.

• Use of the GBT logo with regard to their homes that follow the Protocol and verification 
   process.

• Listing of GBT homes on the program’s interactive online home registry and ability to 
   enhance these listings by indicating homes that are for sale and adding photos. Builder 
   will also have a web address dedicated exclusively to their GBT home listings. 

• Access to official GBT Certificates of Registration, which can be presented to buyers at 
   closing.

Associate Benefits:

Associate membership is important to Green Built Texas and its participating builders. The continued success of the program will be due, in large part, to the involvement of product and service suppliers who show leadership in the program and commitment to the concept of green building. Associate members will play an important role in guiding the program with technical and product expertise. 

Associate HBA members who join Green Built Texas will receive the following benefits:


Title Partner: $6,000

• Banner ad at the top of the program’s website with a link to your company’s homepage - visible to thousands of builders and consumers

• Partnerships for all of the program’s meetings – includes product booth space, speaking time, and two free admission passes at these events.

• Free participation in HBA Green Speed Networking Event ($250 value)

• Opportunity to host and present one Green Vine Lecture

• Listing in program promotional materials and Products/Services Directory

• Use of the program’s official logo.

• Discounted participation in HBA Green Speed Networking Event

• Membership in the Green Built Texas program

• First opportunity to be a Title Partner next year.

Silver Partner: $1,500

• Scrolling banner ad on the side of the program’s website – visible to thousands of builders and consumers

• Listing on poster sign at all program meetings and discounted admission to these events

• Free participation in HBA Green Speed Networking Event ($250 value)

• Company logo displayed at Green Vine Lectures

• Company listing in Products and Services Directory.

• Use of the program’s official logo

• Membership in the Green Built Texas program

Member Partner $150

• Membership in the Green Built Texas program

• Discounted admission to program events

• Use of the program’s official logo

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2010 Enrollment 

 Builder Members Join Now or Download PDF Invoice.

 Associate Members Join Now or Download Title and Silver Partner PDF Invoice
                                                   or Download Member Partner PDF Invoice 

You can mail or fax your application form to:

HBA of Greater Dallas
ATTN: Diane Manivanh
5816 W. Plano Pkwy.
Plano, TX 75093

ph)  972-931-4840 x108
fax) 972-267-0426

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