Our Green Building Activities

Many of our business segments are recognized as leaders in their fields and for their commitment to green building.

• Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company's five homebuilder subsidiaries are at the forefront of building energy-efficient homes. During 2007, we assessed green building practices across our homebuilding subsidiaries. We further supported the adoption of green building by taking a leadership role in developing a National Green Building Standard by the National Association of Home Builders.
• Quadrant's Living Sound program offers its customers a variety of ways to live more sustainably in their communities and in their homes. Quadrant's partnerships with local land trusts work to preserve wetlands, stream corridors, forest areas and urban open spaces. Affiliations with Built Green™ and Energy Star® allow homebuyers more choices for a home that is both environmentally friendly and budget friendly. Quadrant Homes has been recognized for its efforts in sustainability, receiving honors such as Built Green™ Large Builder Award; Built GreenTM Foundation Award, and the Association of Washington Businesses Environmental Award.
• Pardee, the Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company homebuilding subsidiary in California and Nevada, is expanding its LivingSmart® green-building program to all new homes it builds. LivingSmart — a combination of features that create energy efficiencies, conserve resources, improve air and water quality, and minimize water consumption — has been available to Pardee buyers in selected neighborhoods since 2001. LivingSmart homes have Low-E windows, environmentally friendly Weyerhaeuser wood products, radiant roof barriers, Energy Star® appliances, carpets of recycled materials and much more. Efforts such as these have earned Pardee several awards including special recognition from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for "sustained excellence" in the Energy Star program. Pardee has been named "Energy Partner of the Year" for four straight years.

Additional accomplishments of Weyerhaeuser's homebuilders include:

• Quadrant Homes was the first major Washington state homebuilder certified as an Energy Star builder and was the largest Energy Star Builder in the state of Washington in 2008. Through Quadrant's Energy Sound program, more than 100 home buyers received the Federal Tax Credit by exceeding IECC energy efficiency standards by 50 percent or more. This was more than any other builder in the state. More buyers are expected to take advantage of this in 2009.Quadrant Homes was recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with a 2009 Energy Star® Leadership-in-Housing Award.
  
  "Meeting and surpassing Energy Star standards is a critical component of Quadrant Homes' Living Sound sustainability program," says Mark Gray, Quadrant's executive vice president. "Our commitment to energy-conserving building practices goes well beyond mandated minimums. Quadrant homes exceed Washington's stringent energy code by 15 percent."
• Quadrant was also the first Seattle-area builder certified as Built Green, with a three-star rating given by the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish counties.
• Trendmaker Homes was one of the first Energy Star builders in its Houston, Texas, market.
• Winchester Homes is taking the lead as an Energy Star builder in Virginia and Maryland, where fewer than 5 percent of builders have adopted the program. Every one of Winchester's new luxury-class Camberley Homes will be built to Energy Star standards.

Innovations that bring green building concepts to customers:

• In February 2009, Winchester Homes in partnership with Design for Life Montgomery opened a new Universal Design Green "Showhome of Ideas" in Maryland. Universal design, also known as "barrier-free living" or "design for all", is the concept of incorporating common sense products, design innovations, and building materials that make your home more comfortable and efficient. The showhome is the first new home to be certified through the voluntary Design for Life Montgomery program, the NAHB's Model Green Home Certification Program and the Energy Star program.
• Weyerhaeuser's entire iLevel product line recently received a "green" designation from the National Association of Home Builders Research Center. Along with being the first company whose products are certified for use under the upcoming NAHB National Green Building Standard. "The Green Certificates are analogous to a code approval," says Rob Brooks, iLevel senior industry tech specialist in Boise, Idaho. "Green credits are pre-approved by NAHB. We can just hand the builder the certificate as proof of their green characteristics. Bottom line: If builders want to build green in 2009, then we’re positioned to assist them with our green structural framing product line."
• Our iLevel™ business's NextPhase™ Site Solutions dramatically reduces job site waste and increases construction-site efficiency. The package of software, products, equipment and services delivers customized home plans and premanufactured panel sections directly to builders.
• In early 2007, we partnered with Cherokee Investment Partners and donated structural framing materials to build the National Homebuilding Mainstream GreenHome™ in Raleigh, N.C. This home will provide the average homebuilder with a model for residential green building that reduces energy usage and uses products from renewable, sustainably managed resources.