Resources
Welcome to the Middle Tennessee Chapter Resource Page! The following is a collection of online resources related to the USGBC and green building in general. Use the navigation links under 'Categories' to jump to any section that interests you.
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Categories
Associations and Non-Profit Organizations
American Indoor Air Quality Council
American Institute of Architecture Committee on the Environment (COTE)
American Solar Energy Society
Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR)
Better Bricks (productivity)
Boston Area Solar Energy Association
Building Concerns
Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)
Climate Action Network (CAN)
Community Greenhouse Foundation
Congress for the New Urbanism
Construction Materials Recycling Association
Development Center for Appropriate Technology
Ecological Design Institute (EDI)
Environmental Defense
Global Environmental Options (GEO)
Global Green USA
Green Round Table: Sustainable Architecture and Design
Healthy House Institute (HHI)
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
National Environmental Trust
National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education (NPPC)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Natural Step (US)
North East Sustainble Energy Association- NESEA
NW Energy Efficiency Alliance
Second Nature
Society of Building Science Educators
Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)
Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC)
Sustainable Energy Coalition
Urban Ecology
Used Building Materials Association (UBMA)
World Green Building Council
Codes and Standards
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
Development Center for Appropriate Technology - codes
GreenSpec
International Code Council
International Organization for Standardization
U.S. DOE BTS - Codes and Standards program
Materials Guides and Certification
Advanced Buildings
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES 2.0)
Certified Forest Products Council
Center for Resourceful Building Technology
CIWMB Recycled Content Product Database
Concrete Network
Construction Materials Recycling Association
EnCompass - Map of Recycled Content Buildings
Environmental Design + Construction magazine
Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of Architects
Find Green
Forest World - Sustainable Forest Products Resource
GreenGuard (interior products emissions testing)
Green Building Databases & Design Resources
Greenroofs.com
Green Sage
Green Seal
GreenSpec, from Environmental Building News
oikos - Green Building Source
Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
Sustainable Design Resource Guid
Sustainable Products Corporation
Used Building Materials Association (UBMA)
U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing
Product Certification and Testing
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
Certified Forest Products Council
Forest Stewardship Council (in U.S., with international links)
GreenGuard
Green Seal
Scientific Certification Systems
Case Studies
4 Times Square (Conde Nast Building)
901 Cherry in San Bruno, California
Adam J. Lewis Center for Environmental Studies
AIA COTE 2001 Top Ten Green Projects
Audubon House: Building for an environmental future
Bachelor Enlistied Quarters, Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Barney-Davis Green Renovation - Denison University
Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED)
Better Bricks (productivity)
Big Horn Home Improvement Center - Silverthorne, CO
BRE Environmental Building at Garston
BTS House of Straw
Civano - Tucson, AZ
CIWMB case studies
C. K. Choi Building, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
Cobb Hill Cohousing - Vermont
Daylighting and Productivity Study by Heschong Mahone Group
Desert House, Phoenix, Arizona
Earth General
Earthship
Ecology House - evaluation report
Ecovillage
Energy & Environmental Building Association - success stories
enCompass - map of recycled-content buildings
GreenHOME
Green Building Alliance - Pittsburgh case studies
The Greening of the White House
Innovative Design Inc. - daylighting in schools
International Case Study compilation - Hong Kong University Architecture
King County, WA - Sustainable Building program case studies
MIT Building Technology - Sustainable Urban Housing in China
NESEA - Northeast Green Building Awards
NEXT 21 (Osaka Gas Experimental Housing)
Northland College - McLean Environmental Living and Learning Center
NREL High Performance Buildings Research Projects
OIKOS case study compilation
Pennsylvania Cable and Telecommunications Association
Pennsylvania Cambria Office - Department of Environmental Protection
Pennsylvania DEP case study research
Pennsylvania’s First Green Building: DEP’s Southcentral Regional Office Building
Property2us article: High Rise Apartment Building in Battery Park City
Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) office
Rocky Mountain Institute - Green Development Case Studies
San Diego Environmental Services' Ridgehaven building
Smart Growth Network - eco-industrial parks and other case studies
Takenaka Corporation - Environmentally Responsible Projects
Takenaka Corporation - University buildings
Ten Shades of Green
Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco
UNEP International Environmental Center
U.S. DOE - CESD's Green Building Success Stories (compilation)
U.S. EPA - Leading by Example (EPA buildings)
Village Homes - a green-built community in Davis, CA
Vital Signs Case Studies
William McDonough + Partners
Zion Canyon Visitor and Transportation Center, NREL
Commissioning and Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Higher Education Teaching Spaces - A Methodological Approach
The Power of POE (Facilities Design & Management article)
Design and Simulation Tools
Building Design Advisor
Building Energy Simulation Tools
Energy Design Tools
Environmental Support Solutions
EQUER (France)
Green Building Advisor
Green Buildings [Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development]
Interactive Tools Survey [University of Weimar, Germany]
International Association for Impact Assessments (IAIA)
Introduction to OTTV and Simulation Tools
U.S. DOE Building Energy Software: Tools Directory
Whole Building Design Guide
Design Resources
Alternative Architecture and Sustainable Development
Architectural Resource Collaborative (ARC)
Architecture and Building
Architecture and Community
Earthship Architecture
EBN
Environmental Design and Sustainability
Environmental Resource Guide - American Institute of Architects
Environmental Sustainable Architecture
Field Guide to Sustainable Construction
Green Building Primer
greendesign.net - Green Building Resource Center
Green Design Sustainable Architecture
The Hannover Principles
LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)
Natural Ventilation - A strategy for sustainability [MIT]
Sustainable Architecture
Sustainable Architecture Building and Culture
Sustainable Architecture Resource
Sustainable Building Resource
Sustainable Building Sourcebook
Sustainable Design Resource Guide - Denver AIA COTE
Economics
Green Economics Website
Natural Capitalism
Energy
Alliance to Save Energy
Better Bricks (productivity)
Center for Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technology (CREST)
The Energy Foundation
Renewable Energy Policy Project
State Energy Offices (U.S.)
Sustainable Energy Coalition
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
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
Funding
Bridgemer: Funding and Investing in Green Buildings
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - funding sources
Funding Green Buildings
Kresge Foundation
State Energy Offices (U.S.)
Government Initiatives & Guidelines
Federal Energy Management Program - Greening Initiatives/Tools
Federal Greening Toolkit
Field Guide to Sustainable Construction
Greening Federal Facilities
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
OECD Project on Sustainable Buildings
U.S. Air Force Environmentally Responsible Facilities Guide
U.S. Air Force – Green Base of the Future
U.S. DOE Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
U.S. DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EREN)
U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA -- Energy Star program
U.S. DOE High Performance Commercial Buildings: A Technology Roadmap
U.S. DOE Low Life-Cycle-Cost Air Conditioner Program
U.S. DOE Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
U.S. DOE Rebuild America - Schools and Commercial Buildings
U.S. EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP)
U.S. GSA Sustainable Design and LEED
U.S. GSA - Great Lakes Region - Build Green
U.S. National Park Service - Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design
U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command - design policy
Whole Building Design Guide
Life Cycle Analysis and Costing
Activity-Based Management
ATHENA Sustainable Materials Institute
BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) [NIST]
BuildingGreen.com
Life Cycle Costing and Stainless Steel - ASSDA
LISA (LCA in Sustainable Architecture)
Media
Environmental Building News
Environmental Design + Construction Magazine
Environmental News Network
Green@work Magazine
Presentations
USGBC Mid TN Chapter Meeting 22 Mar 07 – Sustainable Sites
Research Centers
Carnegie Mellon University Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development (CESD), USDOE
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS)
Center for Resourceful Building Technology (CRBT)
Center for Sustainable Systems - Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Centre for Sustainable Design
FICUS-Florida Internet Center for Understanding Sustainability
Green Resource Center, Berkeley
Hong Kong University - Building Energy Efficiency Research
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Building Technologies Dept.
MIT Building Technology Group
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory-Buildings Technology Center
Pacific Energy Center
Renewable Resource Data Center
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)
Sandia National Laboratories Renewable Energy Office
Simulation Research Group
Sustainability Research Profiles [Second Nature]
The Vital Signs Project
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