Green Trend at the Buliders Convention

At the International Builders’ Show the vendors were showing energy efficient products to home owners. The attendance at the show was lower than last year. The green industry is growing as more home owners are buying energy efficient product.
Here are the glimpses of the show held in Las Vegas few days earlier. Matt Belcher, president of Belcher Homes in St. Louis, Mo said about the technology that has become cheaper is radiant floor systems, which function as heaters. He said that they are affordable now and they are made better and more efficient. He builds near-zero energy homes with green products by using geothermal and solar power.

Among all the products, Belcher was impressed with new “flashing materials”. They look like tape and are used to keep water from getting trapped inside the home.

Among many of the latest innovations on display the 8,721 sq. foot home features solar paneled awnings that draw energy from the sun and from sunlight reflected off the ground, walls made from insulated concrete and some 40 percent of its indoor lights from LEDs and compact fluorescents.

Many of the latest innovations were on display in the New American Home, billed as a state-of-the-art laboratory for new construction and built in Las Vegas in conjunction with the convention.
The 8,721 square-foot home features solar paneled awnings that draw energy from the sun and from sunlight reflected off the ground, walls made from insulated concrete and some 40 percent of its indoor lights from LEDs and compact fluorescents.

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