Articles of Interest
Check out the recent articles written by NBI staff for HPAC Engineering magazine:

• Mark Frankel’s article, Specifying High-Performance Buildings and Systems: Better performance outcomes through simple and common-sense changes to spec process, appears in the November 2006 edition.

• Cathy Turner contributed to the September 2006 edition with her article, A Post-Occupancy Look at LEED Building Performance: Assessing energy-, water-efficiency measures in 11 new buildings in the Pacific Northwest.

• NBI Executive Director Dave Hewitt wrote about Energy Efficient Buildings in the August 2006 edition.

Capturing the Carbon Cap
As promised at ACEEE, we are happy to offer Capturing the Carbon Cap - NBI Poster on Energy Efficiency Program Considerations for reducing GHGs (.pdf - 5.3 MB).

Saving Energy, Growing Jobs
David Goldstein, Energy Program Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and NBI Board President, has written Saving Energy, Growing Jobs: How Environmental Protection Promotes Economic Growth, Competition, Profitability and Innovation. Copies are available directly from the publisher (www.baytreepublish.com) and from on-line and traditional booksellers.

Getting to Fifty Summit
60 industry experts came together March 7-9, 2007, to develop strategies to accelerate adoption of energy efficiency practices into the commercial building marketplace. This Summit is the starting point of an enhanced network to create a new class of energy-efficient buildings. Read a full summary report and recommendations from the Summit.

Press Releases

•  October 30, 2007 - Core Performance press release

•  June 21, 2007 - Getting to Fifty press release