Advanced Design
Advanced Buildings
Advanced Buildings is a suite of tools and resources to help design teams create high performance buildings. Advanced Buildings guidance and other information describes what works in energy-efficient building design strategies and low-energy technologies. Read More
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Office of the Future
The Office of the Future is a program of the Office of the Future Consortium, a group of utilities working together to accelerate energy savings in the existing commercial office building market. The program, currently under development, will provide incentives to encourage high efficiency measures to be installed as part of the tenant improvement process. Read More
Getting to 50 and Beyond
NBI’s Getting to 50 initiative looks at design strategies and policy issues that will create buildings that are 50% more energy efficient than current standards. A survey in 2007 found that only one in 1,000 buildings met this level of performance. Net-zero-energy buildings are the ultimate goal; NBI's Getting to 50 efforts create the stepping stones to get there. Read More
Education
As part of its goal to achieve net-zero energy buildings NBI contributes to a number of education efforts that promote the design strategies and technologies needed to achieve net-zero energy buildings. By partnering with such organizations as the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, NBI is committed to moving the design industry forward through these various educations programs and design competitions. Read More