Home Depot antes $375,000 for LEED-Home Rating System development.WASHINGTON Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. -- The Home Depot The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box Foundation awarded a $375,000 grant to the U.S. Green Building Council to help with the development of the Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design for Homes Rating System. The LEED for Homes Rating System is a voluntary initiative promoting the home building industry to adopt more environmental practices. The grant supports the development of the LEED for Homes Rating System with a special "Initiative for Affordable Housing." It will include a reference manual; a pilot demonstration of LEED for Homes in six markets; and new affordable housing training sessions at the Greenbuild International Conference and Exposition exposition or exhibition, term frequently applied to an organized public fair or display of industrial and artistic productions, designed usually to promote trade and to reflect cultural progress. scheduled this November November: see month. in Atlanta Atlanta (ətlăn`tə, ăt–), city (1990 pop. 394,017), state capital and seat of Fulton co., NW Ga., on the Chattahoochee R. and Peachtree Creek, near the Appalachian foothills; inc. 1847. . "The Home Depot Foundation is extremely pleased to have entered into a national partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council to develop LEED for homes," said Kelly Caffarelli, executive director of the Home Depot Foundation. "The need for a nationally recognized standard in environmentally sound and healthy home construction is critically important." |
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