Building Design/ Construction

Organizations

Development Center for Appropriate Technology
http://www.dcat.net/
Working to remove barriers to sustainable building & development through building codes. Survey on building code impediments, checklist for getting approval to alternatives to building codes.

Energy & Environmental Building Association
http://www.eeba.org
Provides education and resources to transform the residential design, development and construction industries to profitably deliver energy efficiency and environmentally responsible buildings and communities.

Energy Services Coalition
http://www.escperform.org
Education & information on how to use future energy savings to pay for building upgrades and energy efficiency improvements today. A nonprofit organization of representatives of state energy offices, energy service companies, finance companies, building owners and others.

Enterprise Community
http://www.enterprisecommunity.com/solutions-and-innovation/enterprise-green-communities
Over half of the homes financed with Enterprise support meet the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria, the only national framework for building and preserving green affordable housing.

Florida Green Building Coalition
http://www.floridagreenbuilding.org
Local resource for green building.

Georgia Earthcraft House
http://www.earthcrafthouse.com
Local resource for green building.

Green Globe
http://www.greenglobes.com/
Revolutionary building environmental design and management tool. It delivers an online assessment protocol, rating system and guidance for green building design, operation and management. It is interactive, flexible and affordable, and provides market recognition of a building’s environmental attributes through third-party verification. The Green Globes system is used in Canada and the USA. In the USA, Green Globes is operated by the Green Building Initiative (GBI). In Canada, the version for existing buildings is operated by BOMA Canada under the brand name 'BOMA BESt'.

LEED for Schools
http://www.centerforgreenschools.org/home.aspx
Learn what makes green schools better for students; Learn about local, state and federal initiatives to promote and support green schools from the US Green Building Council. Learn about LEED, the national benchmark for high-performance schools; Find videos, research, case studies and other resources. Read the most recent green schools news.

Partnership for Advanced Technology in Housing (PATH)
http://www.pathnet.org
Public-private partnership promotes advanced building technologies. A related website, ToolBase, provides detailed results of PATH field projects and PATH's "Technology Inventory": www.toolbase.org

Rocky Mountain Institute
http://bet.rmi.org/
This seminal non-profit is an international leader in the green building industry. It serves as consultants and as a conceptual think-tank to facilitate implementation of sustainable high-performance solutions through collaborative integrated design.