Skip to Main Content

University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Green/Sustainable Building: Associations & Meetings

A guide to resources related to green building and sustainable architecture

Green Building Events in the Great Lakes Region

Loading ...

Associations

To locate other green building organizations, check the Encyclopedia of Associations (Associations Unlimited via the UIUC Library), available through most libraries.

Energy & Environmental Building Association
http://www.eeba.org/
Promotes the awareness, education and development of energy efficient, environmentally responsible buildings and communities.

Green Building Alliance
http://www.gbapgh.org/
Pittsburgh-based non-profit organization working to integrate green building practices into regional development projects.

Green Building Information Council
http://greenbuilding.ca/
Canadian non-profit organization whose mission is to disseminate information about energy and environmental issues in the building sector.

National Association of Home Builders Research Center
http://www.nahbrc.org/
Research and development arm of the National Association of Home Builders. Click on Green Building on the navigation bar on the left side of the page for their green building site.

U.S. Green Building Council
http://www.usgbc.org
The nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.

Meetings

Environmental Building News Calendar of Events
http://www.buildinggreen.com/ebn/calendar.html
A calendar of events maintained by Environmental Building News.

Excellence in Building Conference & Exhibition
http://www.eeba.org/conference/default.htm
Conference designed to meet the diverse educational and networking needs of Builders, Architects & Designers, HVAC Contractors, Engineers, Utility representatives and other industry professionals. Sponsored by the Energy & Environmental Building Association.

Green Building Challenge
http://greenbuilding.ca/gbc2k/gbc-start.htm
Green Building Challenge is an international collaborative effort to develop a building environmental assessment tool that exposes and addresses controversial aspects of building performance and from which the participating countries can selectively draw ideas to either incorporate into or modify their own tools.

National Green Building Conference
http://www.nahbrc.org/conferencesseminarsgreen.asp? TrackID=&CategoryID=...
Sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders. Targeted to the mainstream residential building industry.