What is a high performance building?
A commercial building that uses less energy, provides superior indoor environmental quality, enhances worker productivity and well-being, and improves the bottom lines of developers, owners and tenants.

Profiting from High Performance.

It’s easier than you think.

Power your design with Advanced Buildings™—a suite of technical resources, trainings and information to improve the way buildings are designed, built and used.

Using whole building patterns, design process tools, and educational resources, it provides designers with the resources to incorporate integrated design strategies on their next project to reduce energy usage and improve indoor environmental quality. Advanced Buildings is compatible with both LEED™ and ENERGY STAR®.

The Advanced Buildings Benchmark is out of date. Advanced Buildings Core Performance is ready. Please see www.advancedbuildings.net for details.

• Advanced Buildings Benchmark is no longer eligible for LEED points in projects registered after June 26, 2007.
• Advanced Buildings Core Performance is eligible for 2-5 NC2.2 EAc1 points.
• For details on the revised NC2.2 EAc1 section, please see www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=3198