Housing Nantucket, in 2007, made a commitment to creating all of its new units as "Affordable & Green." Simply put, this means that all new construction will meet at least the LEED for Homes certified standards. Our newest unit at Clarendon Street is likely to be certified LEED for Homes Silver, while the house on Norquata Drive is likely to achive the same goal.

This particular portion of the website will provide resources for those interested in affordable housing and green construction. We have lots of information in our office as well in our "Resource Library." (PDF) Future resources include material lists/specifications and white papers on sustainability.

Housing Resource Center - Housing Nantucket's future home striving for a "Net Zero" energy usage program, including wind and solar power.

• Detailed information & sketch concepts

House Designs (Specifications to follow)

• Clarendon House (Final design copyright Rob Andersen)
• Norquata House (Copyright Milton Rowland & Associates)
• Dartmouth House (Copyright Mark S. Avery)

Presentations & Documents

• Affordable & Green: Housing Nantucket's Green Policy
• Affordable & Green: Housing Nantucket's Design Standards
• Universal Specifications for Housing Nantucket's construction
  
  
• Action Starts at Home (Presentation on Sustainable Communities, Affordable Housing and Green Construction at Nantucket Community School Lecture Series, PPT)
• Affordable & Green (Worcester Polytechnic Institute study of available parcels and green construction techniques - Large File 4.5Mb)

Resource Listing

Please email aaron(at)housingnantucket.org if you would like to have us post your information. Housing Nantucket makes no recommendations regarding the use of these professionals. We simply are providing the information as a service to the community. Our in-house Resource Library may also have some books, magazines or materials that would be of use as well.

Resources (Local)

• Habitat For Humanity Nantucket: www.habitatnantucket.org
• Verde: Nantucket Green Build: www.verdenantucket.com (2 LEED APs)
• Chip Webster & Associates: www.cwa-arch.com (3 LEED APs)
• Cottage & Castle Inc: www.cottageandcastle.inc (1 LEED AP)
• Twig Perkins Inc: www.twigperkinsinc.com (1 LEED AP)
• Sustainable Nantucket: www.sustainablenantucket.org
• ReMain Nantucket: www.remainnantucket.org
• Nantucket ReUse eXchange (REX): www.nantucketreuseexchange.com
• An article by the Nantucket Independent detailing some of the "green" world on Nantucket.

Resources (General)

• U.S. Green Building Council (LEED): www.usgbc.org
• Department of Energy/Energy Star: www.energystar.gov
• The Whole Building Design Guide: www.wbdg.org
• Building Science Consultants: www.buildingscience.com
• Green Builder (Sourcebook): www.greenbuilder.com
• ReGreen (ASID/USGBC): www.regreenprogram.org
• Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH): www.pathnet.org
• Building Green: www.buildinggreen.com
• International Dark Sky Program :www.darksky.org
• American Planning Association: www.planning.org
• American Institute of Architects: www.aia.org
• Congress for New Urbanism: www.cnu.edu
• Green Roofs for Healthy Communities: www.greenroofs.org
• Sustainable Sites Initiative: www.sustainablesites.org

Resources (Affordable)

• Global Green USA: www.globalgreen.org
• Minnesota Green Affordable Housing Guide: www.greenhousing.umn.edu
• Housing Assistance Council: www.ruralhome.org
• Enterprise Foundation/Green Communities: www.greencommunities.org
• Green Affordable Housing (Boston): www.cityofboston.gov/dnd/D_green_housing.asp
• Affordable Housing Design Advisor: www.designadvisor.org
• Island Affordable Housing Trust (Martha's Vineyard): www.ihtmv.org
• Rural Development Inc (Franklin County, MA): www.ruraldevelopmentinc.org