Local Examples of Ultra-Efficient Multifamily Residential Buildings
Helpful Tools
A Guide to Zero Energy Terminology
Easy-print Summary of HDC’s Exemplary Buildings Program
EPA’s Water Score for Multifamily Housing
Equity and Buildings: A Practice Framework for Local Government Decision Makers
Glossary of Terms Used in HDC’s Exemplary Buildings Program
New Buildings Institute’s “Getting to Zero Resource Hub”
Standards & Practices
Construction Instruction’s Building Science Library
Washington State’s Evergreen Sustainable Development Standard (ESDS)
Domestic Hot Water
“Bringing Heat Pump Water Heaters into the Mainstream” (Advanced Water Heating Initiative (AWHI) of New Buildings Institute (nbi), Feb. 2021)
Healthy Buildings
BlueGreen Alliance Foundation’s Building Clean Initiative
Capitol Hill Housing’s Liberty Bank Building
Healthy Building Network’s HomeFree Initiative
International Living Future Institute’s Declare Program
“Meeting Enterprise Green Communities 2020 Criteria with HomeFree Resources“ (video of a Healthy Building Network webinar, 12.17.2020)
Seattle Housing Authority’s Breathe Easy Homes
Benchmarks & Regional Sustainable Building Initiatives
Brussels, Belgium: Exemplary Building Program Strategy and Success
International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge Framework for Affordable Housing
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Passive House Challenge
Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency’s Passive House Incentive Program
State of Washington Department of Commerce: Ultra-Efficient Affordable Housing Demonstration
Sustainable Building Initiatives in Our Region, Including Shift Zero’s 20 by 2020 Building Challenge
Risk Management
“Redefining the ‘Risks’ of Sustainable Buildings”
Funding Opportunities
Seattle City Light Funding for Exemplary Buildings
WA State Dept of Commerce Ultra-High Energy Efficiency (UHEE) Program