On October 23, 2025, the Advanced Water Heating Initiative (AWHI) announced the recipients of the 2025 Excellence in Water Heating Awards as a part of the Heat Pump Water Day program. These honors recognize the following outstanding individuals and organizations...
We at New Buildings Institute (NBI) are pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors: Patrick Hughes, Rochelle Routman, and Jill Sherman. These individuals bring a wealth of knowledge and leadership across key sectors,...
Nora Wang Esram joins New Buildings Institute as the new CEO to drive its ambitious mission of eliminating emissions from the built environment. Portland, ORE., March 18, 2025—New Buildings Institute (NBI), a mission-driven nonprofit organization working to advance scalable and...
New Buildings Institute’s Alexi Miller was featured in a recent Canary Media article discussing New York’s groundbreaking competition to spur innovation in heat pump technologies for large buildings. This initiative underscores the urgent need for efficient solutions to decarbonize the...
Written by Deisy Verdinez, the U.S. Green Building Council, Inc. has published a policy agenda for the next administration aimed at revitalizing the commercial real estate sector. Responding to challenges like high interest rates, rising construction costs, and increasing climate...
Written by Ysabelle Kempe, The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $90 million in grants to support local implementation of energy-efficient building codes. This initiative aligns with the Biden administration’s goals for decarbonization and energy resilience. Through these awards, DOE...
In a recent CleanTechnica article, Joe Wachunas of the New Buildings Institute reports on the rising popularity of heat pump water heaters in 2023. This surge in sales highlights the growing adoption of energy-efficient, low-emission technologies that are both cost-effective...
Published by Green Sports Alliance: Building on the foundation of the “Building for the Next Generation Playbook” released in 2023, the Energy Decarbonization Playbook delves deeper into sustainable practices related to energy, such as GHG tracking, reduction, electrification, renewable energy,...
Published by Facilities Net: The New Buildings Institute (NBI), which despite its name understands that most school districts can’t tear down their old buildings and replace them with new, fully electric ones, recently hosted a webinar to help facility managers transition...
Published by Forbes: According to Conway, the Cut Carbon Note removes barriers to participation by property developers, who typically might think that such building would be too expensive. Properties that meet a new low-carbon building standard for efficiency improvements, developed...
Published by Clean Technica: Sales of heat pump water heaters have grown steadily since becoming certified by ENERGY STAR in 2009. Clayton’s decision to install them in approximately 42,000 manufactured homes a year will be a huge boost.
Published by NAIOP: The city [of Cambridge] established funding and sent out a RFQ seeking to develop a Municipal Facilities Improvement Plan (MFIP). The partnership of Arup, the New Buildings Institute and Boston-based ICON Architecture had the winning bid.
Published by Oregon Business: New Buildings Institute ranked 42 out of 100 for best green workplaces in Oregon.
Published by blooloop: “It’s through that coalition that we have access to information and partners like New Buildings Institute, which helped us do Culture over Carbon or Rocky Mountain Institute, which helps us in the Helen Frankenthaler project grantmaking. It...
Published by ASHRAE: In the spring of 2023, ASHRAE published the first edition of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 228, Standard Method of Evaluating Zero Net Energy and Zero Net Carbon Building Performance. It contains a method of evaluating a building, or group...
Published by Canary Media: On April 30, the Biden administration finalized efficiency standards — the wonky rules that govern appliances sold in the U.S. — that will supercharge sales of heat-pump water heaters. “This rule will ensure that heat-pump water...
Published by Facilities Net: Pueblo Community Health Center in Colorado achieved what no other facility of its type had before: Its total site energy use is offset by total site energy production, as verified by the New Buildings Institute.
Published by Facilities Net: Ralph DiNola, CEO of the New Buildings Institute, has a bird’s-eye view of how this transformation is going. The institute, based in Portland, Oregon, is a nonprofit organization working to advance scalable and practical approaches that...
Published by Department of Energy: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today finalized Congressionally-mandated energy-efficiency standards for a range of residential water heaters to save American households approximately $7.6 billion per year on their energy and water bills, while significantly...
The Efficient and Healthy Schools Program aims to motivate and empower K-12 schools to reduce energy costs and improve energy efficiency, health, and resilience. The program connects schools with practical solutions and provides technical assistance and resources to improve school...
Published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Berkely Lab’s Program team works collaboratively with New Buildings Institute to provide assistance to schools and districts in their submissions for recognition. The team also assisted DOE and one of the Program organizing partners...
Published by Canary Media: RMI developed The Green Upgrade Calculator in partnership with seven different organizations including New Buildings Institute. Since the calculator’s debut final week, almost 2,000 people have used it to carry out their very own analyses, stated...
Published by WISH-TV: The built environment is responsible for about 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to New Buildings Institute, and it’s only predicted to grow in the coming decades as new construction increases to keep up with population...
Published by Star Tribune: Heat pump water heater sales grew 26% nationally in 2022 and gas versions fell by 17%, he said, pointing to data collected by the New Buildings Institute.
Published by Clean Technica: Ralph DiNola, chief executive officer of the decarbonization nonprofit New Buildings Institute, also sees an opportunity for [The Commercial Building Heat Pump Accelerator] to nudge commercial rooftop heat pump development in directions that will help reduce emissions...
Published by Microgrid Knowledge: The Wy’East project will provide resilience for a community that not only experiences storm-related outages but is also subject to summer wildfires and public safety power shutoffs… Under the plan, components of the microgrid will be...
Published by Federation of American Scientists: Code experts such as the New Buildings Institute and Regulatory Assistance Project could identify and modify existing code language to match the needs of federal procurement.
Published by ClimateWorks Foundation: Liepa Braciulyte of New Buildings Institute (NBI) describes the issue of urban heat islands and how NBI is developing building and zoning code language to help cities mitigate the urban heat island effect. This effect contributes to...
Published by Facilities Net: Since buildings are responsible for 40 percent of global emissions, institutional and commercial facilities play a vital role in achieving that goal, but there are many signs that the U.S. is behind in those efforts. An...
Published by Tree Frog News: According to New Buildings Institute, the building and construction industry is responsible for 39 percent of GHG emissions. And “of these emissions, one-third comes directly from the creation of construction products and construction activities.”
