Go Green with LAT and LBM Journal

Green building is by far the fastest-growing building trend in decades, and it has been a hot center of building activity even as other housing sectors have cooled down.  Do you want to green your organziation?  Read on!

Certified Green DealerTM Program

LAT is working with the LBM Journal to promote an exciting training and certification program called the Certified Green DealerTM Program.  As part of LAT's commitment to the Program, 10 percent of the Program's tuition is paid directly to LAT for dealers that sign on in our region.  LAT "gets green" as you get green too!


"The Certified Green Dealer program has enabled our sales staff to gain
knowledge about how the vague term "green" applies to the products and
services that we supply. We share this information with our builder-customers
who are then equipped to market better products to the homeowner.
It's a win-win for everyone."
   - Bobby Davis, General Manager, Cassity Jones Lumber Co., Longview

 

How do I become a Certified Green DealerTM ? 

A lumberyard or building material dealer location can become a Certified Green DealerTM if 75 percent of its sales personnel view a series of web-based training videos and pass eight individual quizzes about building basics, green building, and green building products.  The Program is $899 per dealer location for the first year and $599 per location for any year after that and entitles the dealer location to unlimited viewing of the training videos for its sales force as well as a complement of other education printed and online information about green building and green products.  For more information and to enroll, visit www.certifiedgreendealer.org or call 877-LBM-Green.  Be sure to specify that you are a member of LAT when signing up!

The Certified Green DealerTM Program is not affiliated with any particular national standards-setting organization, such as NAHB or LEED.  The certification is based entirely on demonstrated mastery by the lumber dealer personnel of "best practices" building science and green building basics.