Watch for Martha Rose Construction to be featured on the Discover Channel's Planet Green in 2008!    Accolades: Click here to enlarge. Energy Star Homes NW 2007 Award ------------------------------------- Energy Star Homes NW 2007 Award for WA Small Home Builder for building ALL of her homes to the Energy Star standards and educating people about the benefits of these homes. Click here to enlarge. 2007 Built Green Pioneer Award ------------------------------------- 2007 Built Green Pioneer Award was received for advancing the Built Green goals by setting extremely high standards in the spec home market and for helping to spread the word about these techniques by giving on site, and teaching classes, and advertising to promote these ideals. Click here to enlarge. 2006 Built Green Hammer Award ------------------------------------- 2006 Built Green Hammer Award was received for building ALL of her new spec homes to the rigorous, independently verified, 5-star B. G. standard. By the end of 2006, (16) new homes and townhomes Built by MRC, Inc. were certified at a five star level. Click here to enlarge. 2005 Home Builder Award Built GreenTM Design Competition Hereby awarded to... Martha Rose Construction, Inc. Project: The Eva Rose Building ...for your leadership in helping grow the market and meet the demand for green homes. Thanks to you we are better able to demonstrate...    Publications: Date: Date: March, 2007, Newspaper Source: The Enterprise, Shoreline ------------------------------------- "Behind the Walls" Home Tour It's a balancing act with higher costs associated with building green, but as more people get educated, the demand for Built Green homes will continue to increase. Martha Rose Construction holds educational tours of 3 recently built homes. Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Newspaper Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer ------------------------------------- Appeal of 'green' houses grows with financial incentives For the first time in this state, individuals will be paid by their local utility to produce electricity, whether they do the job with miniwind generators, photovoltaic solar panels or gas-producing anaerobic digesters of garbage or manure. Read the full article at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/233259_ncenter20.html Hardcover: Edens Lost & Found - How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities Authors: Harry Wiland and Dale Bell; with Joseph D'Agnese -------------------------------------- Excerpt: For Martha Rose, the philosophy of green building is the culmination of a lifetime of strong ideas about sustainable shelter. When she was only nineteen years old, Chicago-born Rose took a job as a carpenter on a construction site in the Washington, DC, area. “The work was hard,” she remembers, “but I liked it.” Read more of the excerpt: http://www.edenslostandfound.org/home/preview.php?id=33    Internet Articles: Conscience, Class and Crafstmanship in Columbia City Source: Around the House with KPLU - http://www2.allblues.org/aroundthehouse/ Date: July 9,2007 Author: Cedar Burnett -------------------------------- Historically, we've been big fans of bigness in this country. We like big houses, big cars, big highways, big hair and big meals served in big restaurants flanked with big parking lots. In our culture... Read the full article at: http://allblues.org/aroundthehouse/articles/67/1/Conciensce C-Class-and-Crafstmanship-in-Columbia-City Martha Rose Construction: 5-Star Esplanade House Source: Built Green - http://www.builtgreen.net Date: April,2007 -------------------------------- This month's featured project is a beautiful 5-Star single-family Esplanade House in Ballard. Built by Martha Rose, of Martha Rose Construction, and verified by Dan Wildenhaus of Atmosphere this home included... Read the full article at: http://www.builtgreen.net/news/news_apr07.html Affordable Housing Case Study Source: http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/swd/greenbuilding/ ----------------------------------------------- Rainier Vista Case Study Case study of the Martha Rose Construction Rainier Vista planned community project in Southeast Seattle. Read the article at (PDF format 271K): http://www.metrokc.gov/dnrp/.../casestudies.asp Direct link to PDF: Click Here Queens of Green Source: Seattle Conscious Choice - http://www.evergreenmonthly.com Date: February 2006 Author: Heather Nordell -------------------------------- Get a job that earns a man’s wage,” a friend exhorted Martha Rose three decades ago, as Rose was about to turn 21. Rose took the advice to heart but... Read the full article at: http://www.evergreenmonthly.com/2006/02/queensofgreen_0206.html CC’s look at local economies and sustainable biz Source: Seattle Conscious Choice - http://www.evergreenmonthly.com Date: January 2006 Author: Heather Nordell -------------------------------- BUILT GREEN design award winner Martha Rose Construction and listing agent GreenWorks Realty announce a grand opening, Jan. 22, for the first of 13 new townhomes available... Read the full article at: http://www.evergreenmonthly.com/2006/01/greenlines0106.html Green home builder aims for the mainstream Source: Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce www.djc.com Date: December 30, 2005 Author: Marc Stiles -------------------------------- Builder Martha Rose is the queen of green. Some of the homes her Seattle company is building in Seattle's Rainier Vista are pre-wired for photo-voltaic panels. Some have passive solar atriums and... Read the full article at: http://www.djc.com/news/en/11174693.html Martha Rose Construction P.O. Box 77350, Seattle, WA 98177 Office: 206.784.0147 FAX: 206.789.9017

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