Grow Your Green Building Skillset Online — From Design to Retrofits

From building science to retrofits, energy modeling, smart homes, and beyond, HeatSpring offers a comprehensive marketplace of green building courses. Join your expert instructors for weeks of top notch technical training.

Deep Energy Retrofits – Upgrade existing residential and commercial buildings up to 45,000 square feet. From building assessment to heat and airflow calculations and beyond, you’ll […]

Building Automation Systems and Open Building Systems: Design Specs

Building Automation Systems (BAS) specifications are a required piece of any building construction, upgrade or retrofit project.
Learn about Building Automation Systems and Design Specifications for Open Building Systems in Ron Bernstein’s latest course.

Typically developed by a consulting engineer, a good specification can significantly enhance the effectiveness and usability of a project. A bad specification can […]

zHome: Setting a National Net Zero Energy and Green Building Precedent

Almost ten years ago, Built Green, an environmentally-friendly residential building program of the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, began a project to develop the first net energy townhome complex in the United States. The project was created to revolutionize green housing and prove that green building could be done affordably. To date, […]

Learn a NEW Approach to Roof Life Cycle Analysis

First published at the RCI 21st International Convention Phoenix, Arizona on March 27, 2006
Equivalent Uniform Annual Cost: A new Approach to Roof Life Cycle Analysis
INTRODUCTION: Life Cycle Cost Analysis and It’s Problems
Interest in life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) appears to be increasing among building owners and designers. Some of this attention may be attributed to a related […]

What Does Zero Energy Capable Mean?

What does ‘Zero Energy Capable’ mean?

A Zero Energy Capable designation means a project was designed, built and tested to be zero energy over the course of a year.

There is a lot of confusion on the market as to what zero energy is.
Green Home Institute is here to help.
To achieve a Zero Energy Capable Designation we have […]