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Improving Passive House Certification Based on Post Occupancy Evaluation

By Maija Krizmane on 28 Apr 2014 • 2 minute read

Passive House is a widely used building certification program focusing primarily on residential energy efficiency. The vast majority of these projects are in Germany, though a handful of Passive House projects have been certified in the United States (with additional pr …

LEED in Illinois Still Going Strong

By GBIG Staff on 18 Jun 2013 • 1 minute read

Earlier this year Illinois surpassed a few big milestones with more than 700 LEED certified buildings totaling more than 150 million square feet (not counting LEED for Homes or LEED for Neighborhood Development). Given this exciting news, we thought it would be worth re …