Two small-business owners in the homebuilding and remodeling industry recently became the Ocean State’s first Certified Green Professionals (CPG) – a designation created as part of a push to develop new environmental standards for the housing industry.
Joseph C. Cracco, owner of Modern Yankee Builders, a residential design and construction firm in Cumberland, and Daniel J. Paquette, of DJP Consulting Inc. in Newport, earned the “green” professional certification last month from the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
The trade group unveiled the new certification early this year, as part of an effort to develop its own nationally accepted benchmarks for environmentally friendly home building and remodeling techniques, according to Roger Warren, executive director of the Rhode Island Builders Association.
The NAHB’s certification comes as the U.S. Green Building Council is expanding its own Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification to certify home remodeling projects and other projects the LEED program previously did not cover.
The organizations are competing to create a dominant, nationally accepted program to meet new government building requirements and court environmentally conscious consumers facing skyrocketing energy costs.
For the full story, see the April 14 edition of Providence Business News.
