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Welcome to Advanced Buildings™

With its suite of technical resources, trainings and information, Advanced Buildings takes the hassle out of high performance building. Core Performance™, the cornerstone of Advanced Buildings, offers a prescriptive path for design teams to create buildings that are up to 30% more energy-efficient than national building standards without modeling.

What’s New

• Core Performance Requirements Submitted in New Mexico
  In January, Advanced Buildings Core Performance requirements were submitted to the New Mexico Construction Industries Division proceeding on New Mexico Green Building Standards by the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project as a prescriptive option for reaching a goal of achieving 30 percent energy savings over ASHRAE 90.1-2004.
• BetterBricks, in conjunction with local Northwest utilities and others, will offer a series of trainings on Advanced Buildings Core Performance. These half-day sessions will teach you how to use the Core Performance Guide to achieve buildings that are up to 30% better than national building standards. Click here to see class dates.
• The new Core Performance Guide is available now! This easy-to-use guide is an essential tool for building owners, architects, engineers and others who want advanced energy performance from their building projects, but don’t have the time or money to conduct energy modeling. The Guide is only $95 and includes online access to reference materials. Order your copy today!
• Core Performance has been adopted by USGBC as a prescriptive option for up to five points under LEED-NC v2.2 Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1: Optimize Energy Performance. The prescriptive path is offered as an alternative to energy modeling requirements in LEED-NC. Click for details and our recent press announcement.
• Efficiency Maine and Efficiency Vermont join Advanced Buildings. Both public benefits administrators will be launching programs including incentive packages in 2008.