EERE Building Technologies Program Links

The Commercial Building Initiative (CBI) aims to significantly improve the energy efficiency of new and existing commercial buildings. To achieve this goal, CBI researches technologies, strategies, and tools to improve energy savings over current building codes. CBI also engages commercial building owners and operators from a variety of industry sectors to help demonstrate, monitor, and move these technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace.

The High Performance Buildings Database is research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that seeks to improve building performance measuring methods by collecting data on various factors that affect a building's performance, such as energy, materials, and land use. The database collects information from buildings around the world, ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods.

The Zero Energy Buildings Database features profiles of commercial buildings that produce as much energy as they use over the course of a year. This database highlights projects from across the country and provides ideas that can be applied to any new building. The Zero Energy Buildings Database is part of the High Performance Buildings Database.