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Global Environmental Options is a non-profit organization that acts as both a coordinating entity and a clearinghouse of information for professionals and non-professionals alike. Their web site contains The Green Building Resource Center and is a listing of green design and building Internet sites:
www.greendesign.net
B.J. Harris. Online database that contains more than 1000 recycled-content and resource-efficient materials, continually updated:
www.harrisdirectory.com
This comprehensive guide is a good text for sustainable issues as well as how to make material selections. This is now only available on-line for a fee.
American Institute of Architects' Publications is now Rizzoli Publications, Inc.
300 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10010
(888) 272-4115.
This web site includes a section on "Low Polluting Building Products, Materials, and Technologies", also lists consultants who provide screening, evaluations of materials, and cleaning and maintenance products. This is the most comprehensive source of information for an Indoor Environmental Quality interrelationship with building materials.
Canadian Housing Information Center, CMHC
(613) 748-2367 / Fax (613) 748-2098
www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
For materials listings: www.sampleroom.buygreen.com
Information on energy-efficient technologies, equipment and calculation programs for buildings and home appliances. Building components have their own links from this site:
(202) 233-9114 / Fax back line (202) 233-9659
www.epa.gov/buildings
BREEAM is a rating method currently for commercial buildings. Widely accepted in the UK as an important part of environmental policy of many major businesses for design, operation, management, and maintenance. BREEAM is one of many programs of BRE, which is the UK's leading center for research on buildings and construction. Extensive and continually updated, so best accessed on-line:
Center for Sustainable Construction BRE
Garston, Watford WD2 7 JR.
breeam@bre.co.uk
www.bre.co.uk
This is a building industry search engine and web site marketing agency:
Dana Point, CA
(714) 496-6648
www.buildingonline.com
This is a discussion site for green building topics. For log-on instructions, send e-mail to: www.greenbuilding-request@crest.org
www.oikos.com
Energy efficiency information and listings of other related web sites. Mostly energy efficiency resources:
www.crest.org
Product database along with specifying guide available through website:
www.hok.com
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