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
- High Performance Building Guidelines:Triangle Regional Public Facilities for commercial buildings
- NC HealthyBuilt Homes Program checklist, residential high performance guidelines coordinated by the NC Solar Center
- US Green Building Council’s website link to LEED TM guidelines for various building types
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.