Resource Efficient
Residential Construction

This directory lists organizations and Internet sites on the leading edge of resource efficient residential construction. All organizations serve a national audience unless a state or region is otherwise indicated. As the field of resource efficient construction grows and organizations are created or evolve to meet the needs of this industry, entries will change. Additions to the directory are welcome. Please send suggestions to: information@peakstoprairies.org.

Commercial || Educational || Governmental
Non-Profit || Trade Associations

Commercial Organizations

• Building America Program (Governmental/ Commercial Partnership) http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/building_america/
• Building Science Corporation http://www.buildingscience.com/
• EcoIQ.com: Green Design and Building http://www.ecoiq.com/greendesign/
• Environ Design Collaborative http://www.environdc.com/
• Environmental Building News http://www.buildinggreen.com/
• Environmental Design and Construction Magazine http://www.edcmag.com/
• Good Cents Homes http://www.goodcents.com
• Green Building Concepts http://www.greenconcepts.com/
• Green Business Letter http://www.greenbiz.com/
• Housing Zone.com http://www.housingzone.com/
• The Lighting Design Lab (Northwest) http://lightingdesignlab.com/ldl/index.html
• Oikos: Green Building Source http://oikos.com/
• Residential Environmental Design http://www.reddawn.com/

Educational Organizations

• Alaska Energy and Housing (University of Alaska CES) http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/faculty/seifert/
• American Association of Housing Educators http://www.cast.ilstu.edu/aahe/
• Center for Construction and the Environment (University of Florida) http://www.cce.ufl.edu/
• Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (Florida) http://www.floridacenter.org/
• Joslyn Castle Institute http://www.unl.edu/JCI
• Peaks to Prairies Pollution Prevention Center - Residential Construction http://www.peakstoprairies.org/p2bande/construction/
• UC Berkeley Library - Green Design/ Sustainable Architecture http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/GreenAll.html
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/meta/sustvl.html

Governmental Oranizations

• Austin Green Builder Program (Texas) http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/greenbuilder/
• Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development - Green Buildings http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/buildings/gbintro.shtml
• City of Portland - G-Rated Program (Oregon) http://www.green-rated.org/g_rated/grated.html
• Energy.gov http://www.energy.gov/efficiency/index.html
• ENERGY STAR® Home Builders program http://www.energystar.gov
• EPA Global Warming: Renewable Energy http://www.epa.gov/solar
  
• Lawrence Berkeley National Labs - Building Technical Department http://eande.lbl.gov/BT.html
• Oak Ridge National Labs - Building Technologies Center http://www.ornl.gov/ORNL/BTC
• Oregon Housing & Community Services Green Building Project http://www.hcs.state.or.us/data_research/greenbuilding/
• Triangle J Council of Governments - C&D Waste http://www.state.nc.us/TJCOG/cdwaste.htm

Non-Profit Organizations

• 113 Calhoun Street: A Center for Sustainable Living (South Carolina) http://www.113calhoun.org/
• Association for Environmentally Conscious Building (AECB) (United Kingdom) http://www.aecb.net/
• American Solar Energy Society (ASES) http://www.ases.org/
• Boulder Energy Conservation Center (BECC) http://bcn.boulder.co.us/environment/becc/
• Center for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Technologies http://www.ceert.org/
• Center for Resourceful Building Technology http://www.crbt.org/
• Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems http://www2.cmpbs.org/cmpbs
• Clean Washington Center (Washington) http://www.cwc.org/
• Energy Efficient Building Association http://www.eeba.org/
• Environment Council (United Kingdom) http://www.the-environment-council.org.uk/
• Green Building Information Council (Canada) http://greenbuilding.ca/
• Green Design Network http://www.greendesign.net/
• Green Seal http://www.greenseal.org/
• Health House, American Lung Association of Minnesota http://www.healthhouse.org/
• Materials for the Future Foundation (California) http://www.materials4future.org/
• National Association of Counties (NACo) - Joint Center for Sustainable Communities http://www.naco.org/programs/comm_dev/center/
• National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) - Affordable Sustainability http://www.homeasta.org/
• Northwest Ecobuilding Guild http://www.ecobuilding.org/
• Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) http://www.pathnet.org/
• Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) - P24U http://www.pprc.org/pprc/p24u.html
• Renewable Energy Policy Project and Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) http://solstice.crest.org/
• Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET) http://www.natresnet.org/
• Resource 2000 (Colorado) http://bcn.boulder.co.us/environment/rs2k/index.html
• Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) http://www.rmi.org/
• Sage Mountain Center - Sustainable Living (Montana) http://www.sagemountain.org/
• Smart Wood http://www.smartwood.org/
• Southface Energy Institute http://www.southface.org/
• Sustainable Buildings Industry Council http://www.sbicouncil.org/
• US Green Building Council (USGBC) http://usgbc.org/
• Used Building Materials Association http://bcn.boulder.co.us/environment/ubma/index.html
• Water Wiser - Water Efficiency Clearinghouse http://www.waterwiser.org/
• Wisconsin Environmental Initiative -Green Building Alliance Program (WGBA) http://wi-ei.org/GBA/

Trade Associations

• Alaska Building Science Network http://www.absn.com/index.html
• American Forest & Paper Association http://www.afandpa.org
• American Institute of Architects http://www.aia.org/
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) http://www.ashrae.org/
• Associated General Contractors http://www.agc.org/
• Austin Sustainable Building Coalition (Texas) http://www.greenbuilder.com/SBC/
• Builders Resource and Information Exchange http://www.fmb.org.uk/
• Built Green (Colorado) http://www.builtgreen.org/
• Construction Specifications Institute http://www.csinet.org/about.htm
• EarthCraft House: Builder's Program, Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (Georgia) http://www.southface.org/home/ech/whatis_ech.htm
• Home Builder's Institute (HBI) http://www.hbi.org/
• National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) http://www.nahb.com/
• NAHB Research Center (NAHBRC) http://www.nahbrc.org/
• National Association of the Remodeling Industry http://www.nari.org/