Sunset Magazine created the Sunset Western Home Alliance, a member-based organization
recognizing the West's best homebuilders. Members of the Sunset Western Home
Alliance are selected on an invitation-only basis, with each candidate meeting
strict criteria for excellence in categories including: sustainable and environmentally
responsible building and development, customer service, maintenance of highest
construction and energy-efficiency standards and innovative, efficient use of
interior space.
The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation’s foremost coalition of leaders
from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally
responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work. As the leading organization
representing the entire industry on environmental building matters, our unique
perspective and collective power provides our members with enormous opportunity
to effect change in the way buildings are designed, built and maintained.
For more information about the U.S. Green Building Council visit www.usgbc.org
The Big50 is a hall-of-fame award for remodeling professionals. Each year REMODELING
selects 50 companies nationwide who have set the standards for professionalism
and integrity through smart marketing, exemplary business practices, unique design,
and extraordinary impact on their community or the industry at large. Big50 remodelers
run successful, growing companies of various sizes that have taken the lead in
raising the standards of the industry.
For more information about the Big 50 visit www.hanleywood.com
NAHB is a trade association that helps promote the policies that make housing
a national priority. Since 1942, NAHB has been serving its members, the housing
industry, and the public at large.
For more information about the NAHB visit www.nahb.org 
