NGBS Impact Case Studies
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TNAH 2026 is a two-story home that features six bedrooms and seven and a half bathrooms located on Lake Osceola in Winter Park, Florida. This home contains a feature unique to typical Florida homes: a basement. Built with cast-in-place concrete walls, the basement contains an event space, wine cellar, game and theater room, and an automated car elevator and parking garage system capable of storing up to 17 cars underground.
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The New American Remodel (TNAR) 2026 is a single-story home in Winter Park, Florida, originally built in the 1950s and updated in the 1990s. This most-recent renovation drew inspiration from pre-1950s tropical Miami architecture while prioritizing improved livability, environmental performance, and aging-in-place, to eliminate the need for future relocation. Several existing windows were replaced with sliding glass doors, enhancing indoor–outdoor connectivity and supporting natural ventilation. The project team applied a systems-engineering approach to integrate building components that previously operated independently, resulting in significant energy efficiency gains while maintaining cost effectiveness. These improvements will reduce annual energy costs by approximately $1,000.
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Hyatt House Seaboard Station, a 149-room hotel, along with The Point, a 75-unit boutique apartment community, were constructed on an EPA-recognized Brownfield site. This project stands out for turning a once-contaminated parcel into two Silver-certified green buildings under NGBS. With thoughtful green strategies, integrated design, and strong developer commitment, it demonstrates both how smart development can revitalize urban communities and the importance of sustainability in fulfilling customer needs in the hospitality sector.
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The goal of this transformational infill redevelopment project is to reduce widespread issues of vacancy and abandonment in the area, while rebuilding the devastated tax base. This project is the result of extensive community studies conducted in 2015 and 2020, which identified the most suitable location to initiate redevelopment efforts. Ground was broken on the homes in March 2025. The neighborhood will contain new wide sidewalks and tree lined streets, new underground infrastructure, and a one-acre linear park dotted with solar pavilions following a bike path.
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39 Creekside Drive is part of the Creekside Park community in Malta, NY. Set on a one-acre wooded lot, this home offers direct access to nearby scenic hiking trails, Kaydeross Creek, and Boice Family Park. Located just south of Adirondack Park and minutes from Saratoga Springs provides the homeowner with access to abundant natural beauty along with convenient opportunities to shop and dine out. Designed to deliver high performance and sustainability, the home reflects Malta Development's commitment to quality, comfort, and environmental responsibility through its rigorous application of the 2020 NGBS.
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Starling Yard showcases the NGBS’s flexible pathways and verification rigor that support successful adaptive reuse and mixed-income housing. Through a layered capital stack that combined affordable housing tools with historic preservation, the development transforms a vacant 1908 school building into 45 affordable apartments while preserving historic features like tin ceilings and wood trim. Two new adjacent walk-up buildings add 52 units, creating a 97-unit community that blends old and new while honoring the site’s architectural legacy.
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213 Big Bradley Drive is a three-story, single-family home with four bedrooms and three bathrooms. This classic cottage is one of four elevation styles for the "Bristol" floorplan, designed and built by Homes by Dickerson. Located in the sought-after Wendell Falls community, this home is surrounded by amenities, including two pools, a 24-hour fitness center, over 10 miles of scenic trails, a dog park, and playgrounds.
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Linden Grove resets the bar for affordable senior housing delivering real savings, real comfort, cutting residents' utility costs all while creating a healthy environment that supports independence and overall wellness. Modular construction and rigorous third-party verification ensured design intent was executed on spec from concept through commissioning, so quality and performance show up in every unit.
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This single-family home, located near the Atlantic Ocean and Cape Cod National Seashore, achieved NGBS Green Certification at the Gold level and NGBS Green +NET ZERO ENERGY certification. Despite the challenges of its somewhat remote setting, the project was driven by an exceptional level of commitment from the homeowner, who consistently pursued additional NGBS practices. Supported by a top-tier design and construction team, the home showcases strategic investments in the building envelope significantly reducing the size and cost of energy systems while still delivering impressive energy savings and minimal usage.
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28 Petronelli Way, a historic four-story brick building located in the heart of downtown Brockton, is distinguished by its intricate Romanesque Revival façade. Constructed in 1890 as the St. Patrick's Total Abstinence Society Building it originally featured a theater with a full balcony on the top floor. The second and third floors housed community-oriented meeting rooms, while the ground level accommodated four retail spaces.
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