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From breaking news and market signals to deep dives on sustainability, value, policy, resilience, and meaning, the Green Builder Media Podcast Network brings together the industry’s most trusted voices to explore how homes are designed, built, valued, and lived in.

3d ago

Airbnb Bets $250M on Housing, “Let America Build” Goes National, & Robots Take on Construction

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: Housing takes center stage this week as Airbnb makes a $250 million bet on getting more homes built, a national coalition pushes communities to “Let America Build,” and local housing battles show just how complicated increasing supply can be. Plus, construction automation, free technical help for builders, COGNITION Smart Data, climate and insurance risk, plastic-free paint, tree rights, and a new era for geothermal. • Airbnb bets $250 million on housing: Its new Housing Accelerator targets stalled affordable and mixed-income projects while investing in housing innovation. • “Let America Build” goes national: Fourteen housing and real estate organizations are pushing for zoning, permitting, and regulatory reforms to increase housing supply. • Austin ties density to affordability: Larger projects near future light rail stations will have to include affordable housing on site. • D.R. Horton pulls a major Virginia development: The builder withdrew a proposed 770-home project following months of community opposition. • Can robots help solve construction’s labor shortage? Automation is promising less rework, faster construction, and greater factory-built efficiency. • DOE offers builders free technical help: A new program connects builders with experts to tackle costs, materials, factory optimization, AI, and other construction challenges. • COGNITION Smart Data launches: Green Builder Media’s new platform reveals what homebuyers want and where housing and building-product opportunities are forming. • What’s behind the walls matters: Sara Gutterman and DuPont’s Alan Hubbell explore durability, building science, and the shift from price per square foot to value per square foot. • Extreme heat becomes a housing and insurance problem: Climate risk is increasingly affecting insurance availability and home values. • Editor’s Product Pick — Paint Zero: A dry, plastic-free interior paint eliminates conventional acrylic and vinyl binders and dramatically reduces shipping weight. • Should trees have rights? Lewes, England, is putting a new twist on the debate over housing development versus protecting nature. • Could fracking technology unlock geothermal? Bloomberg Originals looks at how enhanced geothermal and deeper drilling could expand access to clean, around-the-clock power. If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
4d ago

Custom Homes, Common Values

Sara Gutterman talks with Rob Cecil, CEO and President of Alair Homes, about why the true value of a home begins long before construction starts. From custom homes as one-of-a-kind prototypes to wellness architecture, climate resilience, lifestyle alignment, and the power of intentional planning, this conversation explores how builders can move beyond price per square foot and design homes around the people who will actually live in them. Together, they unpack what it means to create homes that support health, comfort, connection, long-term value, and a better way of living.
Sep 10

ICE Raids Hit Homebuilding, Passive House Outperforms Codes, and Old Homes Make a Comeback

This Week’s Sustainable Building News: ICE enforcement is disrupting construction labor in some markets, Passive House is dramatically outperforming standard energy codes, and buyers are showing renewed interest in older homes. Plus: affordable housing that still isn’t affordable, smarter ways to cut energy bills, why trees may be health infrastructure, and a growing remodeling opportunity. Included on this episode: • ICE Enforcement Hits Homebuilding Labor and Costs • Why Thousands of “Affordable” Homes Are Sitting Empty • Judge Blocks HUD Fair Housing Funding Overhaul • Passive House Up to 4.5X More Energy Efficient Than Standard Codes • 3 Smarter Ways to Cut Home Energy Bills • Should Builders Think of Trees as Health Infrastructure? https://earth.org/nature-as-medicine-redesigning-urban-green-spaces-for-nature-based-healthcare/ https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GH001651 • Old Homes Are Making a Comeback https://www.bhg.com/hottest-zip-codes-2026-12057045 https://candysdirt.com/2026/09/06/this-turtle-creek-mansion-proves-historic-homes-are-hot-again/ • COGNITION Hot Take: Green Remodeling Is a Revenue Opportunity • Editor’s Product Pick: Hardie Fiber Cement Siding See how Green Builder Media’s VISION House Asheville is putting resilience into practice. If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
Sep 2

Mormon Church’s 50,000-Home Dream

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. The Mormon Church emerges as a major housing developer, new data show single-family construction spending falling, windowless bedrooms face a ban, plug-in solar comes to California, and modular housing gets a boost. Plus: mass timber skyscrapers, ADUs, heat pumps, the skilled trades and the real story behind America’s housing shortage. In this episode: U.S. Construction SpendingMormon Church Real Estate DevelopmentWindowless Bedroom Code ChangeCalifornia Plug-In SolarBmore Build ForwardQuality Training Centers Cost CalculatorMass Timber and the Future of CitiesMassachusetts ADUsThe Upgrade That Saves Billions of DollarsThe Housing Shortage Myth — The Valuation MetricRoom & Board Urban Wood ProjectIf you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
Aug 26

Housing’s New Reality: Build It to Survive

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Stronger building codes, wildfire protection, passive survivability, extreme heat, tariffs, manufactured housing, modular construction and 3D-printed homes are reshaping what resilience and affordability mean for housing. In this episode: • Stronger building codes reduce hurricane damage — Homes built under Florida’s stronger code were 22% less likely to suffer wind damage. • Mold lawsuits put building science in the spotlight — Moisture, HVAC, ventilation and air-sealing problems are increasingly ending up in court. • California weakens wildfire Zone Zero rules — New requirements fall short of the five-foot non-combustible zone recommended by researchers and firefighters. • Passive survivability could keep homes habitable longer — Phius co-executive director Lisa White explains how passive buildings perform when power and critical systems fail. • Resiliency is becoming a housing value driver — Download Green Builder Media’s free COGNITION Smart Data report, A Growing Resiliency Economy. • Extreme heat is damaging home foundations — London’s subsidence crisis offers a warning for U.S. regions with expansive clay soils. • Can we cool buildings with less electricity? — Smart windows, shading, reflective roofs, ventilation and radiative cooling could reduce growing AC demand. • U.S.-Canada tariffs threaten construction costs — Renewed trade tensions could raise prices for building materials and housing. • Manufactured housing gets an affordability push — Congress is targeting construction costs, but high-cost financing remains a major obstacle. • Keller Williams makes a move into modular housing — KW Modular will train agents and connect them with modular home manufacturers. • 3D-printed housing gets a real-world test in Colorado — The Cleora development plans more than 65 3D-printed homes as the technology moves toward neighborhood scale. • Editor’s Product Pick: OX ThermoPLY Utility Board AB — A dual-purpose air barrier, draft stop and temporary surface-protection product. If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes, and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode. About Green Builder Media Green Builder Media provides news, insights and intelligence on sustainable building, high-performance homes, resilience, energy efficiency, building science and the future of housing. www.GreenBuilderMedia.com
Aug 26

The Impact Series: Valerie Miller

Mike and Valerie talk about AI data centers, water use and a whole lot more on the Impact Series.
Aug 19

AI Is Talking About You to Home Buyers

This Week’s Sustainable Building News. Housing starts are falling, AI is influencing home-buying decisions, and affordability is changing where Americans are willing to live. In this episode, we break down the biggest stories shaping housing, sustainability, and the built environment. Housing starts fall, but Oregon bucks the trend. Single-family starts dropped nearly 10% in July, while Oregon housing starts jumped 11.3% in the first half of 2026. Is AI influencing your home buyers? One buyer reportedly walked away from a deal after AI estimated $250,000 in repairs that contractors later put at just $17,000 to $19,000. Factory-built housing gets a boost. New federal housing legislation could lower manufactured-home costs and address some of the regulatory and financing barriers preventing modular housing from scaling. Can solar and farming share the same land? Virginia becomes the fourth state to formally define agrivoltaics as electricity demand from data centers soars. Should resilience count when measuring a building’s environmental footprint? New research argues that rebuilding after extreme weather belongs in the sustainability equation. Big builders get bigger, but small builders still matter. Dream Finders is acquiring Beazer Homes for $2.2 billion, while Green Builder Media’s Ron Jones makes the case for local builders as an overlooked resilience resource. Affordability is about more than the mortgage. Redfin is adding childcare costs and availability to home listings as families increasingly evaluate the total cost of living in a community. America’s malls are becoming neighborhoods. Developers are turning former department stores and parking lots into apartments and mixed-use communities. Would you move for a more affordable home? New COGNITION data finds more than 70% of buyers would. What space exploration can teach us about water reuse. Colorado’s adopts water demand calculator. Editors’ Product Pick of the Week: ecobee SmartBuildings. Ventilation webinar If you're passionate about green building, sustainable construction, building science, housing policy, resilience, energy efficiency, healthy homes, and the future of residential construction, subscribe to the Green Builder Media Network / @thegreenbuildermedianetwork for new videos every week. 👍 Like this video if you enjoy our coverage. 💬 Tell us which story mattered most to you in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an episode.
Aug 18

The Housing Shortage Myth

In this solo episode, Sara challenges the idea that America’s housing crisis is simply a shortage problem. Drawing on Harvard’s State of the Nation’s Housing report and COGNITION Smart Data affordability research, she explores why the market is both starved and saturated, and why the real crisis lies in a mismatch of price, buyer, product, and place. From shrinking affordability and stalled mobility to growing demand for smaller, more efficient homes, this episode argues that solving the housing crisis requires more than building more. It requires measuring more accurately and valuing homes for what they offer, not just their square footage.

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From breaking news and market signals to deep dives on sustainability, value, policy, resilience, and meaning, the Green Builder Media Podcast Network brings together the industry’s most trusted voices to explore how homes are designed, built, valued, and lived in.

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