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Sponsors       Useful Links   North Carolina Agencies & Organizations Advanced Energy Corporation Carolina Recycling Association North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association Western NC Green Building Council Database and Website Sponsors North Carolina Solar Center’s main website State Energy Office, NC Department of Administration’s main website Triangle J Council of Governments’ main website Guidelines for Building Design and Construction Checklist from the NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program for residential high performance guidelines coordinated by the NC Solar Center High Performance Building Guidelines:Triangle Regional Public Facilities for commercial buildings Link to LEED TM guidelines for various building types from the US Green Building Council Residential green guidelines from the National Association of Home Builders National & Regional Organizations American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS) National Energy Foundation National Recycling Coaliton Sustainable Buildings Industry Council website, including Energy 10 energy modeling analysis software US Government Agencies & Programs EnergyStar Program EPA Green Power Partnership Million Solar Roof Initiative International Organizations International Energy Agency International Ground Source Heat Pump Association Specific Topic: Construction Waste Management Fact Sheet from Cooperative Extension WasteSpec from the Triangle J Council of Govenrments Specific Topic: Daylighting Website of the North Carolina Daylighting Consortium with links section and local professionals Specific Topic: Energy Efficient Lighting Lighting fixture search engine Lighting fixture search engine Website sponsored by Phillips Lighting, provides fixture search engine for LEDs and florescents. Specific Topic: Hazard Mitigation FEMA’s Design and Construction guidelines for Community Shelters (other resources available through the library at http://www.fema.gov/library/prepandprev.shtm) Specific Topic: Product Search Engines CSI format based green building product search engine Environmental Building News CSI website; some paid and some unpaid content. Specific Topic: Recycled Products Buy Recycled Business Alliance NC Dept. of Administration procurement site. Choose Sustainability section for recycled products available on state contract Specific Topic: South Facing Orientation A calculator from NOAA that allows you to input your zip code and obtain the declination from magnetic south. Find some typical latitudes and longitudes in the US. Provide the lattitude and longitude and other factors and this calculator will help you with sun angles.

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