MGB Homes Press & Awards

Using 3-D modeling and Google Earth, luxury home builder MyGreenBuildings tweaks designs and gives clients virtual site tours. By Michael Pollick, Sarasota Herald-Tribune   From his desk at Michael Carlson Studio Architecture in Sarasota, associate Jedd Heap can design a building, then plop the design down anywhere in the world, [...]

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens transforms the top of a cistern into an educational tool. By Pam Langan It was a labor of love for the green at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, and not the paper kind. Selby is a source of environmental education, so it was only natural that installing [...]

MyGreenBuildings' prototype "green rebuild." Tired of tear-down homes replaced by McMansions, the two-story, boxy structures that tower over more modest, older homes? Steve Ellis and Grant Castilow are. The two feel it's "clearly cool to build smaller and smarter than go for size." "Everyone is building McMansions, but we feel [...]

We're seeing many baby boomer consumers who are educated, monied and equipped with a social conscience. Sarasota's Grant Castilow and Steve Ellis recently launched MyGreenBuildings to save older homes and rebuild them with green materials. In 2005, when Lakewood Ranch began reqiring its 20 participating builders to incorporate green building [...]