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Core Performance Guide: A Prescriptive Program to Achieve Significant, Predictable Energy Savings in New Commercial Buildings

by New Buildings Institute

ISBN13: 9780974296913
ISBN10: 0974296910
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Core Performance Guide is the nationally recognized source on how to deliver best-in-class energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality in high-performance commercial buildings. Core Performance brings together over 30 criteria defining high performance in building envelope, lighting, HVAC, power systems and controls. With this well-organized and easy-to-use guide, building design and construction professionals will gain access to quantitative and descriptive specifications for exceeding state and national minimum standards such as ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1-2007. By providing a comprehensive source of technical specifications, Core Performance Guide will save time and money before, during and after the job. Core Performance Guide also can help you qualify for many of the utility and other programs that reward high-performance buildings including US Green Building Council’s LEED. This is a must-have book for the high performance building professional.

Who should use Core Performance Guide?

Planners
Architects
Engineers
Contractors
Developers
Owners

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: D3M, March 23, 2009 (view all comments by D3M)
FINALLY, A GREAT RESOURCE BOOK!!!
"Core Performance Guide" is an outstanding comprehensive resource book for Local/State/Federal Government Facilities Engineers/Designers (Planners, Architects & Engineers) and Government Contractors. It allows all involved parties to work from the same page to create buildings that really perform and deliver the best energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality to achieve high performance buildings that would benefit not limited to the end users, communities and environment.
Utilizing the Core Performance Guidance as a comprehensive source of technical specifications would assist all involved parties to develop a better integrated requirement. It will absolutely save time and money with efficient results that are very cost effective. All involved parties become responsible steward of the taxpayers.

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: garcia, April 5, 2008 (view all comments by garcia)
With this guide all those who are involved to improve buildings on the sustainability direction, will save time not inventing a wheel which is already invented, towards being a top world class on energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality. Saving time getting top results.
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ISBN:: 9780974296913
Subtitle:: A Prescriptive Program to Achieve Significant, Predictable Energy Savings in New Commercial Buildings
Author:: New Buildings Institute
Publisher:: New Buildings Institute
Location:: White Salmon, WA
Binding:: Spiral
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 127

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