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Fiber Cement Siding Makes The Nightly News!During a recent installment of the NBC News series "America Goes Green," fiber cement siding earned prominent mention as a sustainable product being used in "green" homes around the country. The video segment also shows a dramatic thermal imaging comparison between a "green" home (with fiber cement) versus a conventional brick home next door. Source: NBC News
Builder Survey Says U.S. Homebuyers Will Pay up to 25 Percent More For 'Green' HomesA new poll of 250 residential builders reveals that homebuyers are willing to pay a premium for more environmentally friendly, green-built homes. More than half of the homebuilders said buyers would pay 11 to 25 percent for such a home. The survey also revealed that the average green buyer is between the ages of 35 and 50.
Green Building Goes BigHome builders who produced green, environmentally responsible homes grew 20 percent in 2005, and that number is expected to increase another 30 percent this year, according to a new report by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders. The green trend is even spreading from single-family homes to multi-family and commercial projects. Source: CNNMoney.com
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