Programs and Partnerships

About Our Partnerships

By combining their diverse expertise, Council members have joined together with DOE, GSA, NAVFAC, EPA, the national labs, Capitol Hill and others to leverage modest resources to create products that no one group could create alone. The result is a large portfolio of practical, user-friendly, award-winning design guidelines, energy-simulation software packages, resource documents, training programs, videos, and Web sites.

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About Our Programs

SBIC’s programs come in many shades of green. Our programs gently encourage newcomers to the movement to consider getting greener, while showing them the wide array of opportunities and benefits sustainable building offers. At the same time, for those who are more seasoned, we offer state-of-the-art support tools and customized guidance. All of this is designed to meet the needs of builders, design professionals, building managers and owners, and procurement specialists.

SBIC's programs focus on the following building types:

• Homes
• Schools
• Federal Buildings
• Small Commercial Buildings
 

SBIC uses a wide variety of tools and events to support its programs:

1. Workshops and Seminars

• Green Building Guidelines©

• 'Whole Building' Approach to Designing Sustainable, Secure Buildings

• Low-Energy, Sustainable, Secure Building Design for Federal Managers

• High-Performance School Buildings^©

• Energy-10

2. Energy Analysis Software

• Designing Low-Energy Buildings With Energy-10

3. Resource and Strategy Guides

• Green Building Guidelines: Meeting the Demand for Low-Energy, Resource-Efficient Homes©

• High-Performance School Buildings Resource and Strategy Guide©

• Passive Solar Design Strategies: Guidelines for Home Building

4. Customized Peer Reviews and Design Charrettes

5. Online Training and Videos

• High Performance School Buildings Online Training

• High Performance School Buildings Video/CD-Rom

U.S. Department of Energy

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Federal Energy Management Program

U.S. General Services Administration

New York State Energy Research and Development Authority

The Federal Network for Sustainability

Other sponsors
and partners
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  SOFTWARE

Energy-10^TM Version 1.8 CD-Rom and User Manual 

Responding to the growing interest in "net zero" buildings Energy-10^TM Version 1.8 models Photovoltaic and Solar Domestic Hot Water technologies . . . Order it today!

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