Monthly Archives: August 2009

LEED 2009 rating program now requires Minimum Project Requirements

The LEED 2009 rating program now requires Minimum Project Requirements (MPR). The most significant aspect of the MPR is one that requires owners of all certified projects to provide energy and water use data to USGBC for five years from … Continue reading

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NAHB News

NAHB now offers dual certification to the National Green Building Standard and the DOE’s Builders Challenge.  The Builders Challenge is a certification of a home’s energy efficiency. The program provides a standardized metric for whole-house energy performance.  Qualifying homes must … Continue reading

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ASHRAE News

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers has released a prototype of their building energy label.   The labeling program is called Building Energy Quotient or “Building EQ”. It was developed in collaboration with the US EPA’s Energy … Continue reading

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