Sustainable Building Programs & Guidelines: |
United States Green Building Council - USGBC
Non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable building design and construction. Developers of the LEED building rating system. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.
LEED for homes
LEED for Neighborhood development
Passive House US - PHUS
The Passive House concept represents today's highest energy standard with the promise of slashing the heating energy consumption of buildings by an amazing 90%.
A Passive House is a comprehensive system. "Passive" describes well this system's underlying receptivity and retention capacity. Working with natural resources, free solar energy is captured and applied efficiently, instead of relying predominantly on ‘active’ systems to bring a building to ‘zero’ energy. High performance triple-glazed windows, super-insulation, an airtight building shell, limitation of thermal bridging and balanced energy recovery ventilation make possible extraordinary reductions in energy use and carbon emission. Today, many in the building sector have applied this concept to design, and build towards a carbon-neutral future. Over the last 10 years more than 6000 buildings in Europe - from single and multifamily residences, to schools, factories and office buildings - have been designed and built or remodeled to the passive house standard.
These guidelines are great as a basic reference for developing basic Passive solar designs
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