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Living Building Challenge - The Living Future Institute
The Living Building Challenge is the world’s most rigorous proven performance standard for buildings. People from around the world use their regenerative design framework to create spaces that, like a flower, give more than they take.
World Green Building Council
Supports national Green Building Councils whose common mission is to create a sustainable built environment through market transformation.
US Green Building Council
Non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable building design and construction.
Energy & Environmental Building Association (EEBA)
Education and resources to transform the residential design and construction industry to profitably deliver energy efficient and environmentally responsible buildings and communities.
UNEP Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC)
A global platform for governments, private sector, civil society, research, and intergovernmental organizations committed to a common vision: A zero-emission, efficient and resilient buildings and construction sector.
Green Building Initiative
Green Building Initiative (GBI) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the built environment’s impact on climate and society.
Sustainable Habitat - TERI
TERI works in the area of sustainable habitat and green building, advocating the use of green energy with the help of latest knowledge and trends in technology in India.
German Sustainable Building Council | DGNB
Europe's largest network for sustainable building, the globally recognised DGNB certification and much more.
AECB (Association for Environment Conscious Building)
The AECB is a network of individuals and companies with a common aim of promoting sustainable building. It brings together contractors, trades people, self builders, architects, designers, engineers, manufacturers, housing associations, local authorities and academics to help develop, share, train and promote sustainable building best practice.
International Living Future Institute (Living Future)
Its programs have transformed over 55 million square feet of real estate and brought 1,000+ sustainable products to life, impacting communities across the United States and beyond.
Passive House Accelerator
Passive House Accelerator LLC is a catalyst for zero carbon building. They cultivate a collaborative platform for sharing innovation and thought leadership in Passive House design and construction. They convene practitioners, institutions, manufacturers, and anyone concerned about buildings and climate change to dive into the details of creating better buildings.
Buildings Performance Institute Europe
Europe's leading independent think tank on energy performance of buildings. Its vision is a climate-neutral built environment, aligned with the ambition of the Paris Agreement, and in support of a fair and sustainable society.
European Urban Initiative
The initiative supports urban areas of all sizes with innovative actions, capacity and knowledge building, as well as policy development and communication on sustainable urban development.
Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council (BETEC)
BETEC is charged with encouraging optimum energy use of buildings through a better understanding of how overall, complex building components interact with each other and the environment. Its members work together to share knowledge of existing and new technologies and practices, and to integrate technical programs on building safety, durability, resilience and occupant comfort with the thermal performance of building envelopes.
Carbon Leadership Forum
It aims to reduce embodied carbon in building materials and construction through collective action. They pioneer research, create resources, foster cross-collaboration and incubate member-led initiatives to bring embodied carbon emissions of buildings down to zero.
mindful MATERIALS
This is an initiative that made transparency and optimization information easily accessible to designers as they select products. They have digitized the Common Materials Framework (CMF), providing the industry with a consistent sustainability decision-making framework.
Habitable
This network works to reduce toxic chemical use, minimize hazards and eliminate exposure in buildings, especially to those chemicals of concern deemed unnecessary or fail to improve product performance.
Healthy Materials Lab
A design research lab at Parsons School of Design committed to raising awareness about toxic chemicals in building products and to creating resources for designers and architects to make healthier places for all people to live.
New Buildings Institute (NBI)
It works collaboratively with industry market players — governments, utilities and building professionals — to promote advanced design practices, innovative technologies, public policies that improve energy efficiency and decarbonize the built environment..
Green Building Information Gateway
Connecting people, products, and services to green buildings around the world.