Sustainable Links
We hope to provide you with another resource to track down information regarding sustainable design, and green building. We have relied heavily on the USGBC for many of these www.USGBC.org.
- Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility. BIPER USA provides a range of resources for sustainable design professionals.
- GreenClips is a summary of news on sustainable building design and related government and business issues published every two weeks by e-mail.
- EcoIQ offers general information on a wide variety of subjects and includes an extensive treatment of green building.
- Environmental Building News offers a checklist to help you get started with your green building project.
- Green Building Concepts contains general information on green building with a focus on residential and the do-it-yourselfer.
- Green Building Information Council. Based in British Columbia, Canada, the Council provides information and links to other green building Web sites.
- Green Resource Center. More than 600 resources are available here. There are plenty of case studies, how-to information, specifications, and more!
- NAHB Research Center identifies resources for developing a Green Building Program and Green Building activities at the Research Center.
- Rocky Mountain Institute provides information on green building and sustainable development including case studies.
- Sustainable Sources allows the user to search through a sustainable building site and a green building professionals directory and find other environmental related sites.
- U.S. Department of Energy. The Sustainable Building Technical Manual may be downloaded from this site.
- U.S. Green Building Council. Check out the Leadership and Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. It will help you evaluate buildings and understand the characteristics of the green building.
- Whole Building Design Guide. a complete Internet resource to a wide range of building-related design guidance, criteria and technology.
- http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/
- http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/
Codes and Standards
- American Concrete Institute
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- Building Codes Assistance Project
- Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development – codes compilation
- GreenSpec
- International Code Council
- International Organization for Standardization
- U.S. DOE BTS – Codes and Standards program
- U.S. DOE EERE – Building Energy Code Resources
Design Tools
- Building Design Advisor
- Construction Carbon Calculator
- Continental Automated Building Association
- Daylight and Thermal Simulation Quality Assurance
- Energy Design Tools
- Energy and Environmental Building Association Bookstore
- EnergyStar Target Finder
- Environmental Support Solutions
- EQUER (France)
- Green Building Advisor
- Green Building Studio
- Interactive Tools Survey [University of Weimar, Germany]
- International Association for Impact Assessments (IAIA)
- International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab- Simulation Research Group
- U.S. DOE Building Energy Software: Tools Directory
- U.S. DOE EnergyPlus Energy Simulation Software
- Whole Building Design Guide
Design Resources
- Advanced Buildings
- AIA’s 50 strategies toward 50 percent fossil fuel reduction in buildings
- American Concrete Institute
- Architecture and Building
- ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guides
- Built It Green
- Earthship Biotecture
- Environmental Building News
- Environmental Resource Guide – American Institute of Architects
- Field Guide to Sustainable Construction
- Green Building Pages, Inc.
- Green Building Primer
- Green Design Sustainable Architecture
- The Hannover Principles
- International Stormwater BMP Database
- LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)
- New Buildings Institute
- Research Design Connections
- Sustainable Architecture
- Sustainable Building Sourcebook
- University of California-Berkeley, Green Design/Sustainable Architecture Information Sources
Energy
- Advanced Buildings
- Alliance to Save Energy
- ASHRAE Advanced Energy Design Guides
- ASHRAE GreenGuide
- Better Bricks
- ClimateBiz.com
- Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
- The Energy Foundation
- Energy Services Coalition
- National Association of State Energy Officials
- New Buildings Institute
- Sustainable Energy Coalition
- U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA — Energy Star program
- U.S. Department of Energy Library
- U.S. Department of Energy – EnergyFiles
- U.S. National Energy Policy
- U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- World Bank energy projects
