High Performance Building

Local Organizations | National Resources | Journals & Publications | Conferences

High Performance Buildings and Comfortable Low, Cost Homes

Commercial/Industrial building professionals are calling green buildings "High Performance Buildings"or "Healthy, High Performance Buildings". Home building professionals call green built homes "Comfortable and Low Cost". Both professional and residential green buildings are certified through the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System®, a voluntary, consensus-based national standard for developing high-performance, sustainable buildings.

• Northeast Ohio was recognized as the home of the largest green building products industry in the U.S. and to the largest stock of healthy, high performance buildings for home and business. See more of the E4S Vision.
• Non-profit, government and academic resources are listed here. Find companies to help your business implement a green building project on the Building pages of the E4S Sustainable B2B Directory.

Local Organzations:

The Cleveland Green Building Coalition is a nonprofit organization created to inform civic, business and building industry leaders as well as the general public about the economic, health and aesthetic benefits of green building.

National/International Resources:

The U.S. Green Building Council is the nation`s foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable and healthy places to live and work.

The Rocky Mountain Institute provides a resource center with more than 200 green development projects.

Construction Materials Recycling Association is devoted to the needs of the rapidly expanding North American construction waste & demolition debris processing and recycling industry.

The Environmental Protection Agency provides an extensive online resource center about green building projects and standards.

Journals & Publications:

The Environmental Building News Newsletter engages current issues in Green Building.

Environmental Design + Construction is the only magazine exclusively covering the rapidly growing green building industry.

Conferences:

GreenBuild is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with other green building peers, industry experts, and influential leaders as they share insights on the green building movement and its diverse specialties.

The National Green Building Conference is the only national conference targeted to green building for the mainstream residential building industry. Network with designers and suppliers, attend exceptional education sessions and develop the skills you need for profitable green building.

EnvironDesignLIVE is a premeir webinar series that makes connections between green products and green projects.

Greening the Heartland is the premier annual conference on green building and sustainability in the Midwest; the conference is a gathering for experts, practitioners, administrators, government officials and business to come together.