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BRIEFS ACTIVITIES & APPOINTMENTS tion will be offered September 20. Rocky Geans Concrete Construction Business School will be held September 19 and 20. For more information, or to register: 866/788-2722, www.ascconline.org. Eric Van Duyne has joined CTLGroup as a senior engineer. Van Duyne will work with CTLGroup's multi-disciplinary experts on a range of complex projects, including the development of repair designs for distressed parking structures. He has over 15 years of ex- perience in struc- tural engineering, specializing in con- dition assessment, repair retrofit design, finite element modeling and construction observations for engineering projects. Prior to joining CTLGroup, Van Duyne worked on residential and commercial foundation designs, analyzed and designed structural systems for residential high-rise USGBC logs 20,000 LEED for Homes certifications The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) announced that more than 20,000 homes across the U.S. have earned certification through the LEED for Homes program. LEED for Homes is a national voluntary cer- tification system that provides guidance and verification that homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-effi- cient and healthy for occupants. "There are green homes, and then there are LEED homes. This milestone is evi- dence that the residential market is in- creasingly recognizing this fact," said Nate Kredich, vice president of residential mar- ket development, USGBC. "LEED for Homes is moving the residential market further and faster towards high-performing, healthy homes that save residents money." The collection of LEED-certified homes is as varied as the whole of the residen- tial market—from multi- to single-fam- ily, from market rate to affordable housing. Since the launch of LEED for Homes in 2008, more than 20,000 resi- dential units have certified with nearly 79,000 additional units in the pipeline. Over half of all LEED-certified homes are in the affordable housing category. Recently-certified projects include eight LEED Platinum certified affordable homes in the Coconut Cove development in Cape Coral, Fla., developed by Southwest Florida Affordable Housing Choice Foun- dation, Inc. and built by Owen-Ames-Kim- ball Company; AMLI at Escena, the first two LEED Gold low-rise multifamily build- ings in Texas, built by AMLI Residential; and, KAPSARC Villa B-19, one of the first LEED for Homes International Pilot proj- ects to certify—located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the LEED Silver home is one of 191 single family production homes built by SK Engineering and Construction as part of Phase I for KAPSARC. Green homes are expected to grow to between 29 – 38 percent of the residential construction market by 2016, equating to $87-$114 billion, according to a 2012 McGraw Hill Construction study. 28 | JULY 2012 WWW.CONCRETEPRODUCTS.COM