Advanced Buildings

NBI works to accelerate market adoption of viable design practices that will improve commercial building performance. We take our experience in best practices for high performance building design strategies and technology application and develop that knowledge into guidance to help design teams and owners improve building efficiency.

Core Performance Guide

The cornerstone of Advanced Buildings is Core Performance, a prescriptive path to small- and mid-size buildings that perform up to 30% better than model energy codes. The Core Performance program brings together over 30 criteria defining high performance in building envelope, lighting, HVAC, power systems and controls.
Advanced Buildings Website
Advanced Buildings Core Performance

Advanced Lighting Guidelines

This long established lighting design resource has guided lighting professionals with vision and lighting research, current lighting technologies and best-practice design strategies for nearly two decades. The revision, presently underway, will update material and launch as a new electronic version: ALG Online.

The revision will contain several expanded areas such as a stand-alone Daylighting section and Application Modules developed in coordination with US DOE’s Commercial Lighting Solutions webtool.

ALG Online will be offered primarily as a world-class technical and design website: a comprehensive, readily searchable and widely accessible resource.
Advanced Lighting Guidelines 2003
ALG Online--Coming Soon!
Commercial Lighting Solutions webtool

Best Practices

NBI's work on developing guidance on various topics ranging from HVAC system design and installation to high efficiency water heating has been pulled together in one convenient resource page on the Advanced Buildings website.
Advanced Buildings Best Practices