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More than 76 million residential buildings and nearly 5 million commercial buildings are consuming one-third of all energy and two-thirds of all electricity in the US. Another 38 million buildings are expected to be constructed by 2010.
Building design firms are transitioning their business-design processes towards integrating LEED and Building Information Modeling (BIM). Buildings must simply do more for their owners, occupants and communities. The BIM process can analyze and simulate green building design options in the computer prior to construction and occupancy.
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Value-Based Design: BIM + Sustainable Design
- 1-2-3 Revit: BIM and Analysis for Sustainable Design
- Linking BIM and building analysis software offers greater opportunities for green design. By:Rick Rundell, AIA
- 1-2-3 Revit: BIM and Analysis for Sustainable Design, Part 2
- New heating and cooling analysis tools, plus two case studies. By:Rick Rundell, AIA
Green Building Basics
- The GREEN HOME Guide
- From Seattle to Des Moines to New York City, anyone can have a green home. Rented or owned, affordable or market-rate, single-family or multi-unit, urban, suburban or rural: If it's housing, it can be green. Learn the basics: Green Homes 101.
Associations - Green by Design
- AIA-COTE
- The Committee on the Environment (COTE) works to advance, disseminate, and advocate-to the profession, the building industry, the academy, and the public-design practices that integrate built and natural systems and enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment.
Micro-Green - Small Steps to a Greener Existence
Small, Individual Collaborative Steps to Achieve Great Rewards
Micro-Green
Green, renewable, and sustainable are attainable ideals.
I like this lens as it provides the average person with small, easy, common sense methods they can do now.
Steps that collaboratively and exponentially contribute to green, renewable and sustainable concepts. Much like the financial theory of compound interest.
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Directory of Recycle and Donation Resources for Cell Phones, Computers, TV and Other Consumer Electronics
- National Cristina Foundation
- National Cristina Foundation (NCF) provides computer technology and solutions to give people with disabilities, students at risk and economically disadvantaged persons the opportunity, through training, to lead more independent and productive lives.
Every day, across America and around the world, National Cristina Foundation is working to ensure that used computer technology resources that no longer meet an enterprise's or an individual's needs are given a second productive life as a tool for developing human potential. - Call2Recycle
- Search and find a local Call2Recycle collection site from more than 30,000 Call2Recycle sites.
Through our national program, Call2Recycle™, the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) can help you recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones.
Rechargeable batteries are commonly found in cordless power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers, camcorders, digital cameras, and remote control toys. RBRC recycles the following battery chemistries: Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), Lithium Ion (Li-ion) and Small Sealed Lead* (Pb). RBRC is dedicated to keeping rechargeable batteries and cell phones out of our nation's solid waste stream and preserving natural resources.
Answer the Call to Recycle! - Earth 911
- Earth 911 empowers the Earth's citizenry with community-specific "actionable" environmental information for you to use in everyday life for the purpose of living responsibly by contributing to the solution of sustainability.
Why Recycle?
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Lighter Footstep - Sustainable Living
Dedicated to Helping You Lead a Lighter, More Sustainable Lifestyle
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- Autodesk - Sustainability Center
- As a global 2D and 3D design software leader, Autodesk believes in the importance of driving sustainable design awareness and adoption. We provide technology, education, and support for programs that inform and promote innovations addressing current and future sustainable design challenges.
We are committed to partnering with the private and public sector, industry leaders, educators, and environmentally focused organizations to create a forum to initiate sustainable design dialogue and increase awareness among the global community. It is our hope that through these collective efforts and Autodesk's technology, we will help architects, engineers, and designers create a more sustainable world. - design | e2 PBS Series Sponsored by Autodesk
- Video and downloadable PODcasts available.
- Architecture for Humanity
- Architecture for Humanity is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 1999 to promote architectural and design solutions to global, social and humanitarian crises. Through competitions, workshops, educational forums, partnerships with aid organizations and other activities, Architecture for Humanity creates opportunities for architects and designers from around the world to help communities in need. We believe that where resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, sustainable and collaborative design can make a difference.
- AIA Announces Top Ten Green Projects for 2006
- Welcome to the AIA/COTE Top Ten Awards Web site. Every year the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) invites electronic submission of built projects.
- Top 10 Methods of Measurement
- The following information is the list of requirements requested for the AIA/COTE Top Ten Awards for electronic submittal forms. It is provided here in PDF format to enable entrants to compose project descriptions and select images prior to submitting them online.
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- Good To Be Green
- Our green building directory gives consumers free access to the most comprehensive list of green building products, eco-friendly materials and sustainable service professionals in residential and commercial markets.
- Not So Big House - Sustainable
- A link to Sarah Susanka, FAIA Not So Big House website featuring sustainable design. Bestselling author, architect, and cultural visionary, Sarah Susanka is leading a movement that is redefining the American home. Her "build better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture has been embraced by homeowners, architects and builders across the country and her Not So Big philosophy has sparked an international dialogue. As a leading advocate for the re-popularization of residential architecture, Ms. Susanka has improved the quality of home design while countering the elitist image of architects so commonly held by the public.
- Smart Growth Online
- In communities across the nation, there is a growing concern that current development patterns -- dominated by what some call "sprawl" -- are no longer in the long-term interest of our cities, existing suburbs, small towns, rural communities, or wilderness areas. Though supportive of growth, communities are questioning the economic costs of abandoning infrastructure in the city, only to rebuild it further out. Spurring the smart growth movement are demographic shifts, a strong environmental ethic, increased fiscal concerns, and more nuanced views of growth. The result is both a new demand and a new opportunity for smart growth.
- Green Building Studio - Online gbXML Analysis
- Green Building Studio, Inc. provides the only web-based energy engineering analysis solution that integrates with today's 3D-CAD/BIM (Autodesk Revit) applications. Green Building Studio enables your design team to have immediate whole building energy analysis results on all building schemes while sharing files with today's engineering tools. This solution reduces two weeks of work to a day.
- The Natural Step
- Since 1988, The Natural Step has worked to accelerate global sustainability by guiding companies, communities and governments onto an ecologically, socially and economically sustainable path. More than 70 people in twelve countries work with an international network of sustainability experts, scientists ,universities, and businesses to create solutions, innovative models and tools that will lead the transition to a sustainable future.
- Sustainable Communities Network
- Imagine what a safe, livable, healthy community might look like. Around the country citizens are coming together to create a vision of what their community might be and to develop steps toward making these visions come true. Alternatively called "healthy," livable" or sustainable communities, these efforts are integrative, inclusive and participatory. In many communities -- large and small, rural and urban -- issues are being addressed in an interconnected manner. They are demonstrating how innovative strategies can produce communities that are more environmentally sound, economically prosperous, and socially equitable.
- Emerging Green Builders (homepage)
- The USGBC's Emerging Green Builders represents a coalition of students and young professionals intent on promoting the integration of future leaders into the green building movement.
- greenbuildingsnyc
- greenbuildingsnyc.com attempts to stay on top of the latest news and developments in green building, with particular emphasis on USGBC and the growing legal implications that both LEED and advanced construction technologies such as BIM present to owners and design professionals. While New York City is its primary focus, this web log also devotes significant attention to green projects and initiatives from across the country and the rest of the world.
- Treehugger.com
- TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, we strive to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. At TreeHugger we know that variety is the spice of life, so you can find all you need to go green in our up to the minute blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, weekly radio show and our user-generated blog, Hugg. We also extend our expertise to companies looking for a little green guidance. Past clients include Domino, Sundance Channel and House & Garden.
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Green Building Products: The GreenSpec Guide to Residential Building Materials
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The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design
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