Monthly Briefing Webinars
As a technical resource for both the green building and energy efficiency industries, New Building Institute (NBI) is in a unique position to offer insight on progress being made toward better energy performance in commercial buildings. As such, we would like to share what we're learning with NBI stakeholders during regular briefings scheduled for the fourth Wednesday of each month.
These invitation-only, 30- to 40-minute briefings will be conducted via webinar and include a short presentation and time for discussion. Stakeholder briefings will cover topics such as:
- policy issues that help or hinder better energy performance in buildings,
- energy-efficient technologies and design strategies with potential to reduce energy use in buildings,
- new tools and resources that can help design teams improve efficiency, and
- what it will take to move best practice along the path to net zero.
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Current Webinar Presentation
April 25, 2012 Presentation: COMNET Portals for Quality Assurance in Energy Modeling
April 25, 2012 Audio Recording: COMNET Portals for Quality Assurance in Energy Modeling
Past Webinar Presentations
March 28, 2012 Presentation: Energy Efficiency and the IgCC (946 KB)
March 28, 2012 Audio Recording: Energy Efficiency and the IgCC
Jan 25, 2012 Presentation: Office Plug Loads (PDF 2.09 MB)
Jan 25, 2012 Audio Recording: Office Plug Loads
Nov 30, 2011 Presentation: Strategies for Increasing Efficiency of RTUs (PDF 3.23 MB)
Nov 30, 2011 Audio Recording: Strategies for Increasing Efficiency of RTUs
Oct 26, 2011 Presentation: Sensitivity Analysis (1.57 MB)
Oct 26, 2011 Audio Recording: Sensitivity Analysis
Sep 28, 2011 Presentation: Designing for Meterability (PDF 709 KB)
Sep 28, 2011 Audio Recording: Designing for Meterability
July 27, 2011 Presentation: Zero Energy Buildings (PDF 779 KB)
July 27, 2011 Audio Recording: Zero Energy Buildings
June 22, 2011 Presentation: The Shifting Energy Code Landscape (PDF 350 KB)
Factsheets & Reports
Commercial Office Plug Load Savings and Assessment Executive Summary
The Shifting Energy Code Landscape (PDF 81 KB)
Sensitivity Analysis Report (9.76 MB)
Additional Resources
"2007 The Cost of Green Revisited" - This Davis Langdon study takes a second look at the question of the cost of incorporating sustainable design features into projects, this paper builds on the work undertaken in the earlier paper "Costing Green: A Comprehensive Cost Database and Budget Methodology," released in 2004.
High Performance Building Case Studies - NBI has developed a database of high performance buildings that perform 30 percent better than CBECS 2003. Many of them have measured performance data, which is a criteria by which users can sort. They can also be sorted by climate. Several of the zero energy and zero energy-capable buildings are included in the database.
Best Practice Resources on Designing for Meterability - COMING SOON