Green Built Home - Wisconsin's residential green building program

Green Built Home™ is a national award winning green building initiative that reviews and certifies new homes and remodeling projects that meet sustainable building and energy standards. The program is implemented in partnership with the Madison Area Builders Association in cooperation with other participating builders associations, leading utilities and organizations that promote green building.

There are currently nearly forty regional green building programs in existence nationwide from Vermont, to Florida, to Hawaii. Green Built Home is the only such program in the upper Midwest and was founded in 1999 by Wisconsin Environmental Initiative (WEI) in partnership with the Madison Area Builders Association. The program is implemented by participating builders associations in cooperation with leading utilities and other organizations that promote green building and energy efficiency. As a product of a non-profit organization, Green Built Home provides neutral third party certification of green building practices that meet meaningful environmental, health, and energy standards.

Green Built Home is administered throughout the state of Wisconsin and reaches thousands of homebuyers and builders through our collaborations with builders associations and other affiliated organizations. Support for Green Built Home comes from builder enrollment and home registration fees as well as organizations that promote green building and energy efficiency for Wisconsin.

Today, people are increasingly aware of environmental issues as they relate to home building. Energy efficiency, resource conservation and improved indoor air quality are increasingly important considerations in buying a new home or remodeling an existing home. It takes time, however, to research the latest green building design, technology and materials, and deciding which measures are most important can be a difficult task. Green Built Home provides this priority ranking of measures to reduce the environmental impact of home building while making homes safer, more comfortable, and more durable.