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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

  • The Energy Trust of Oregon and Efficiency New Brunswick join utilitites and public benefits administrators around North America as sponsors of Advanced Buildings. Read the full press release to learn more.
  • NBI has launched a new email communication with updates about its suite of advanced design tools and resources called Advanced Buildings. Once you sign up for this service, Inside Advanced Buildings will be delivered to your inbox every few months with useful information about best practices in high performance commercial building design. Sign up here.
  • Core Performance has been adopted as part of a stretch code for Massachusetts. The new rules would make new commercial buildings under 100,000 square feet up to 30% more energy efficient than current standards and reduce carbon emissions by nearly 40%. Click here for more information on advanced codes.
  • For LEED 2009, the USGBC has modified the point structure for EAc1 requiring all projects to exceed ASHRAE 90.1-2007 requirements by at least 10% before any EAc1 points are awarded. The Core Performance Program is still eligible as a prescriptive path for LEED 2009 with no modeling required. The guidelines for the program are the same as with previous versions of LEED, except that in every case the first two ‘points’ are not counted in EAc1 but instead go toward meeting the prerequisite requirements of this credit. Click here for details.

 


  

 

 

 

 

   
   


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