Green Building and Sustainable Design
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GreenSage brings together the many elements of our industry and connects them into one community. You can find reliable information about the issues we face concerning our built environments. You can learn about sustainable materials, quickly locate professional assistance in your area and easily connect with resellers to recycle materials, enabling you to easily make informed choices that best meet your own needs and projects.
HGTVPro.com is the place to turn for professional green building videos, information, ideas, products, components and news.
High Performance Buildings Magazine
Companion web site to print publication. Our mission is to help decision makers in the building community learn about the benefits of innovative technologies and energy-efficient design and operation.
Companion web site to print publication focused on residential energy efficiency, performance, comfort, and affordability. Get instant access to the latest news on energy- efficient, durable, comfortable, and green homes. Blog
Jetson Green is a daily updated web magazine that's obsessed with green building, sustainable architecture, good design, clean technology in the built environment, and eco-friendly development. The magazine is published to inspire and engage all sorts of players in the green building revolution, whether a builder, designer, entrepreneur, innovator, developer, lawyer, architect, engineer, lender, contractor, owner, or environmentalist.
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) - Wikipedia
Wikipedia definition.
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Incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in 1997, NBI works with national, regional, state and utility groups to promote improved energy performance in commercial new construction, managing projects involving building research, design guidelines and code activities. Additionally, NBI serves as a carrier of ideas between states and regions, researchers and the market.
The market for high-performance homes and workplaces is soaring. Explore this website to find out how building green can boost your bottom line. Get tips for streamlining design and construction. Learn which strategies deliver the biggest paybacks. And discover ways to get your project noticed. A Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) web site.
Welcome to the removement. PlanetReuse is the world's first free-to-use website focused specifically for architects, contractors, designers and material reclaimers to connect, find and source reused building materials.
Rate It Green is a user-driven directory, ratings site, and community portal for everyone interested in green buildings. Our goal is to facilitate information sharing to support further industry growth, to help increase industry confidence and openness, and to offer a place for community building.
Companion web site to print publication features extensive information and resources related to sustainable design and construction topics.
Includes a green building professionals database directory, green real estate section and extensive green building resource section.
The High Performance Buildings Database is research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that seeks to improve building performance measuring methods by collecting data on various factors that affect a building's performance, such as energy, materials, and land use. The database collects information from buildings around the world, ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods.
U.S. DOE - High Performance Buildings
The High Performance Buildings initiative is a government research program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that improves the energy efficiency of commercial buildings in the United States. We work with researchers at national laboratories as well as building owners, contractors, private sector engineers, architects, and others involved in commercial building construction to reduce the energy consumption of buildings while improving their quality, occupant comfort, and cost-effectiveness.
U.S. ENERGY STAR - Buildings & Plants
Improving the energy efficiency of the places where we work, play and learn helps us save energy, save money, and fight global warming. Look for facilities that have earned the ENERGY STAR - the national mark of excellence in energy performance - and know with confidence that the facilities are energy efficient and have a smaller carbon footprint.
U.S. ENERGY STAR - New Home Qualification
ENERGY STAR qualified homes can include a variety of "tried-and-true" energy-efficient features that contribute to improved home quality and homeowner comfort, and to lower energy demand and reduced air pollution. To earn the ENERGY STAR, a home must meet strict guidelines for energy efficiency set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. These homes are at least 15% more energy efficient than homes built to the 2004 International Residential Code (IRC), and include additional energy-saving features that typically make them 20–30% more efficient than standard homes.
U.S. EPA - Green Buildings Resource Page
The buildings in which we live, work, and play protect us from nature's extremes, yet they also affect our health and environment in countless ways. As the environmental impact of buildings becomes more apparent, a new field called "green building" is gaining momentum. Green, or sustainable, building is the practice of creating and using healthier and more resource-efficient models of construction, renovation, operation, maintenance and demolition.