Sweet Orange » Platinum rating http://www.sweetorangehousing.com Is the Orange County housing juice worth the squeeze? Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:37:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Take a Tour of the First LEED Platinum-Rated U.S. Home http://www.sweetorangehousing.com/2009/12/09/take-a-tour-of-the-first-leed-platinum-rated-us-home/ http://www.sweetorangehousing.com/2009/12/09/take-a-tour-of-the-first-leed-platinum-rated-us-home/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:07:58 +0000 Sylvia Walker http://www.sweetorangehousing.com/?p=13421 first-livinghomeYesterday, I wrote about the prefab green home in Newport Beach that developer LivingHomes put up in about four hours. The first home of this type that LivingHomes installed is in Santa Monica and is the home of  Steve Glenn, the CEO of LivingHomes, (To see additional prefab green homes that LivingHomes has built, see the LivingHomes website.)

In addition to being the first home of this type that Living Homes built, the Santa Monica prefab is the first residential building in the U.S. to receive the LEED Platinum rating.* The Newport Beach home mentioned previously as well as homes in Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach and Costa Mesa are competing for this title in Orange County.

You can view the Santa Monica home in two ways: You can take a tour of the Santa Monica house every Friday from 1-2 pm and the 4th Saturday of each month. Tickets are free and can be reserved through eventbrite.com. Or you can take a virtual tour.

*LEED is the predominate sustainable development rating system in the U.S., and Platinum is the highest LEED rating.
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