SBIC's Small Commercial Buildings program was developed to help architects, engineers, builders, and their clients create energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive small and medium-sized commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. Our publications, resources, and training programs promote the notion of building designers applying energy-efficient strategies early in the design process by combining passive solar design techniques, such as daylighting and shading, and conventional energy-saving measures, such as insulation and high-efficiency lights. The goal of the program is to educate thousands of architects, engineers, building designers, academics, and students in the United States to apply these approaches as part of the normal design process. With the inception of the this program, SBIC for the first time stepped beyond a focus on passive solar design techniques for homes and into the realm of addressing the unique challenges faced in designing climate-responsive, small commercial (internal load dominated) buildings.
We developed a special classroom workshop to give designers the opportunity to participate in discussions about integrated design practices. It covers 16 energy-efficiency strategies that software users need to understand in order to use it effectively.
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