Sustainable building trends in Colorado?

[Brady Potts]

Hey everybody, 

Curious to see what sorts of sustainable building practices are being seen in the Denver area, or Colorado in general. Any specific materials, standards, certifications you are seeing put forth by clients, builders, developers, etc.? 

[Brittany Guimond]

I did a bunch of research a few months ago on the greenest communities in Denver metro, attaching that list w/links here. I find most boutique builders (Lokal, Toll Brothers, Meritage, Thrive) are using sustainable products in their new builds. With incentives coming out of the recently passed IRA (inflation reduction act), there's going to be a bunch of new practices coming out of it, but it's still too early to tell exactly what it'll look like. Lots of tax credits is what it's looking like, but I should know more over the next year when the bill starts to take shape in the real world and we can make sense of it all.