Martha Rose Construction of Seattle offers this new home in Seattle featuring commercial grade porcelain floor tiles, wool carpeting, custom cabinetry, all gas appliances, recreation room or separate accessory dwelling unit capability, home networking, fiberglass/wood windows, situated next to blue heron nesting grounds and more! Their website is: www.martharoseconstruction.com

Rodda Paint – Makers of Horizon, Rodda's brand of low VOC coatings, with a family of 42 products currently available at www.roddapaint.com.

Merrill Design – Single family residential construction design, both new homes and remodels at www.merrilldesign.net.

The Showplace, Inc. – Specializing in kitchen and bath remodeling at www.showplaceinc.com.

Parsons Public Relations – Public relations, media relations, promotions, grand openings, product launches and event marketing at www.parsonspr.com/teamjoanie.html.

Seattle builders are invited to participate in a Built Green Design Competition, hosted by the City of Seattle. Selected projects will receive financial and technical assistance, facilitated permit processing, public recognition, and marketing support for their team and project. Find out how you can become involved at www.seattle.gov/dclu/sustainability.

• A full-day competition workshop will be held on October 23.
• The application deadline is Sunday, Feb 1, 2004.
• Your project must be Built Green certified by Monday, Nov 1, 2004, with announcements of winners in December 2004.

Membership Meeting of Built Green – The first ever meeting of our member companies will be held on Thursday, Nov 6, at the MBA Banquet Room from 6 – 8 pm. Please put it on your calendars now so you can stop by and give us your feedback on the program and what you’d like to see come out of it!

Seattle Homeshow 2 – Please stop by the Built Green booth #1603 from October 2 – 5 in the Seattle Exhibition Center. Volunteers to staff the booth are still welcome! Jorve Roofing is the sponsor of our large 20’ x 40’ space, and Skyline Displays is the sponsor of the structure of our exhibit. Members companies such as Stafford Homes, Quadrant Homes, O’Brien & Company, GreenWorks Realty, Penates Design, Shirey Contracting, and Pin Foundations, among others, also support the booth graphics.

We’ve doubled our membership since March, with more than 120 companies now participating in the program. About one-third is builders, with the rest associates and representatives from related industries, municipalities and other organizations. This first issue of our newsletter is designed to help prevent an overabundance of e-mails to our members; we will try to have all correspondence fit into this one, monthly online communication to you. If you have an item you’d like to include, or information you’d like to receive, please send an e-mail to builtgreen@mbaks.com, and we’ll make an effort to address your request.

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has awarded the Built Green program with a $40,000 grant to help educate builders, consumers and homeowners on energy efficiency in residential design, construction, and home operations and maintenance. This award marks the largest such grant given by PSE to a green homebuilding program, and illustrates its broad commitment to helping our communities become resource-efficient. As part of our partnership, Built Green and PSE will provide a monthly column here with tips for how you can save energy use – in the workplace, during construction or at home! www.pse.com.

The King County Green Building Program provides assistance to builders and residents on a range of green building topics. Contact the program for resources on:

• Construction waste management plans
• Earning FREE recognition for reducing waste and recycling on the jobsite
• Built Green(TM) and LEED(TM)

Single Family - Check out recently certified homes from Stafford Homes, Lozier Homes, Environmental Homes Northwest, Martha Rose Construction and Quadrant Homes. All have many Built Green 3-Star rated houses for sale.

Communities – Three entire communities have certified to Built Green this year. Quadrant Corporation certified Redmond Ridge and Snoqualmie Ridge, and Port Blakely Communities certified Issaquah Highlands, where most of the homes will also be certified to the Built Green program.

Remodels – Sunshine Construction and Shirey Contracting have both certified Built Green remodels and additions recently.

Built Green Library - This is a reminder that you can access the Built Green Library in the MBA membership center on the first floor, near the front desk. You can ask the MBA receptionist to direct you to the shelves that contain more than 60 volumes of books on green building methods and practices.

Built Green Logo – if you need a logo to place on your promotional literature or website, send an e-mail to builtgreen@mbaks.com and we’ll send you the files. Just remember that the logo should not be used to endorse a particular product or company, but can be used to identify your company as a member of Built Green. Also, the logo should only be used to identify a home that has been certified as Built Green. Some of our builders do not certify every home, and therefore should designate only those that have been certified as Built Green.

Built Green Handbooks – If your company has not received one Built Green Handbook as part of your membership, send an e-mail to builtgreen@mbaks.com and specify which of the four handbooks you’d like to receive: single family new, multifamily, remodels, or communities.

Built Green Orientation provides an overview of the entire program on Friday, Nov 14 from 8 – 10 am at the MBA. Instructors are Robin Rogers, Built Green Director, and Diane Glenn, Principal of the Construction Consultants. The course is free and open to anyone. Register by calling 425.451.7920. This course is required for certifying a Built Green project and is a recommended precursor to other Built Green courses.

Health House Training, that was scheduled from Oct 2 to Nov 13 has been cancelled.

Profit from Built Green is a comprehensive course that provides a primer for green building tactics, as well as market trends in green home building and how you can take advantage of them. This all-day class will be held Tuesday, Oct 14 at the MBA.

For information on how to list your "green" products* in this space, please contact Robin Rogers by phone at 425.451.7920, or via e-mail to rrogers@mbaks.com.

*Products must be able to meet at least one Built Green credit (see the four Built Green checklists on our website) to qualify, and the company must be a member-in-good-standing of Built Green. We will list no more than three per newsletter.

Snohomish County provides assistance to builders and residents on a range of green building topics. Contact the program for resources on:

• Construction waste management plans
• Alternatives to pesticides and other, harmful products
• Built Green(TM) and LEED(TM)

The County is currently under construction for a new administration building and garage. The project is LEED registered. For a look at the project construction progress as well as the "green" features, please click here.

Master Builders Association
335 – 116th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA 98004
Directions
P: 425.451.7920
P: 800-522-2209
F: 425.646.5985
builtgreen@mbaks.com

REBATES through Wednesday, Dec 31

Commercial Projects
Reduce your building’s water use from 15% to 30% by replacing old fixtures, and receive rebates of $60 to $120 per fixture for commercial toilets and urinals. www.savingwater.org

Replace water-cooled commercial ice machines with air-cooled machines for rebates of $200 to $1,000, depending on machine capacity.
www.savingwater.org

Install resource-efficient washing machines in multifamily buildings for a $50 rebate as part of the Laundry Wise Program. Contact yen.chin@seattle.gov or call 206.684.4290

Homeowners
Puget Sound Energy is offering a $20 rebate to its customers when purchasing an Energy Star dishwasher.
www.pse.com

Install state-of-the-art rain sensors and new super-efficient controllers for an automatic sprinkler system and receive a rebate between $100 and $450.
www.savingwater.org

Puget Sound Energy offers a $35 rebate for purchase of a qualifying energy efficient clothes washing machine, with an extra $40 rebate from the Redmond Water Utility for Redmond customers.
www.pse.com or call 800.562.1482.