Web Resources

 Below is a list of basic Web resources that will be helpful to you as you explore topics within sustainability and whole building design.  Please check back often as this list is growing.

Whole Building Design Guide
In 1997, Naval Facilities Criteria Office was looking for ways to leverage the shrinking technical and financial resources they used to update hundreds of paper-based criteria documents. SBIC's members and staff helped conceptualize the Whole Building Design Guide website to help address this growing problem. The website became the first electronic portal to provide free access to government-wide, buildings-related criteria, guidance, and best practices.    go

Learning By Design
Learning By Design is the premier, award-winning annual guide that showcases outstanding school and university facilities design and construction projects.  The guide comes from Stratton Publishing & Marketing, Inc., the National School Boards Association, and the American School Board Journal.     go

SBIC High-Performance School Buildings Information & Training Center
If you already know the benefits of high performance schools, are a concerned citizen and wish to tell other leaders in your community about them, please register on this page to receive instruction and tools that will prepare you to deliver a persuasive, consistent, authoritative presentation to any audience about High-Performance School Buildings.     go

Ecobuild Fall
Ecobuild Fall and AEC-ST Fall is an annual event that goes beyond green to cover the breadth of green building, sustainable design, renewable energy, environmental planning processes and information collaboration strategies for commercial, industrial, institutional and residential construction.  Attendees include the federal government, design and construction decision-makers from the public sector and private practice, AEC professionals, owners, developers, and facility managers - the entire project team in one place, at one time.     go

Environmental and Energy Study Institute
EESI is dedicated to promoting environmentally sustainable societies. EESI believes meeting this goal requires transitions to social and economic patterns that sustain people, the environment and the natural resources upon which present and future generations depend on. EESI produces credible, timely information and innovative public policy initiatives that lead to these transitions. These products take the form of publications, briefings, work shops and task forces.     go