This web page is intended to provide valuable references to subjects related to sustainable design. It contains the following sections:

Design for Environment (DfE) - General

Environmentally Preferred Materials

Green Design Manuals and Case Studies

Software Products

Design for Environment (DfE) - General

Brezet, Han, and Carolien van Hemel. 1997. ECODESIGN: A Promising Approach to Sustainable Production and Consumption. Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Chemical Manufacturers Association. 1993. Designing Pollution Prevention into the Process: Research, Development, and Engineering. Washington, D.C.

Ellis, M. D. (editor). 1994. The Role of Engineering in Sustainable Development. American Association of Engineering Societies, Washington, D.C.

Fiksel, J. 1996. Design for Environment: Creating Eco-Efficient Products and Processes. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Graedel, T.E., and B. R. Allenby. 1995. Industrial Ecology. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Guiding Principles of Sustainable Design. 1993. National Park Service. Government Printing Office. (The National Park Service's illustrated guidelines for sustainable design. Includes chapters on interpretation, natural and cultural resources, site and building design, energy management, water, waste prevention, and maintenance and operations.)

Kennedy, M. 1998. "Gathering Environmental Cost Data for P2." P2/Pollution Prevention Review. Tampa, Florida.

Kilbert, C. and D.L. Waller. 1992. Guidelines for Contractors Dealing with Environmental Issues. Technical Publication No. 77, University of Florida.

Weitz, K., J. Smith, and J. Warren. 1994. "Developing a Decision Support Tool for Life Cycle Cost Assessments." Total Quality Environmental Management, Autumn 1994.

Environmentally Preferred Materials

Clean Washington Center. Directory of Recycled Content Building & Construction Products. 1992. (A listing, by CSI code of building and construction products containing recycled materials). Contact: Send requests for this publication to Clean Washington Center, Department of Trade & Economic Development, 2001 6th Ave, Suite 2700, Seattle, WA 98121, 206/464?7040.

Environmental Building News Product Catalog. "What's Working." P.O. Box 1004, Boulder, CO 80306 -
e-mail: catalog@whatsworking.com.

Kalin Associates. Green Spec. Green Products Software. (See Software Products below.)

Loken, S., W. Spurling and C. Price. 1993. Guide to Resource Efficient Building Elements. Center for Resourceful Building Technology (CRBT) (Listing of a number of "resource efficient" construction products.)

Lopenske, B. NPS Sustainable Design and Construction Database. Available for download at http://www.nps.gov/dsc/dsgncnstr/.

National Park Service. Sustainable Construction and Design Database.

St. John, A., (editor). The Sourcebook for Sustainable Design. Architects for Social Responsibility, Boston Society of Architects. (Guide to environmentally responsible building materials and processes.)

Stafford Harris, Inc. 1995. The Harris Directory. Second Edition. (See Software Products below.) (Electronic listing of 1,800 environmentally preferable building and construction products, with sorting capability by state,
CSI code, etc.)

Sullivan, B. Resources for Environmental Design Index (REDI). Iris Communications, Inc. Internet address: http://oikos.com/ E-mail: iris@oikos.com.

Green Design Manuals and Case Studies

American Institute of Architects. 1996. AIA Environmental Resource Guide, available through AIA order department, 800/365-ARCH.

Austin Green Builder Program. The Sustainable Building Sourcebook.
http://www.greenbuilder.com/sourcebook/.

U.S. Department of Energy Project and Fixed Asset Management (FM-20). 1996. Good Practice Guide for Pollution Prevention: FM-GPG-025.

U.S. DOE Smart Communities Network. 1996. The Green Building Technical Manual, available for download from http://www.sustainable.doe.gov.

Kincade, J. Waste Spec. Manual for specifying pollution prevention in construction contracts.

Mumma, T. 1997. Guide to Resource Efficient Building Elements, 6th edition. The Center for Resourceful Building Technology, Missoula, Montana.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 1996. P2-EDGE Software (Pollution Prevention Environmental Design Guide for Engineers). (See Software Products.) Contains a database of over 250 opportunities to incorporate pollution prevention into facility design.

Rocky Mountain Institute. 1997. Green Developments. (See Software Products.) A database of over 100 case-study projects that demonstrate environmentally-responsible building development on CD-ROM.

U.S. Department of Energy. 1997. Greening Federal Facilities: An Energy, Environmental, and Economic Resource Guide for Federal Facility Managers. Greening America, Sustainable Systems, Inc., Washington, D.C.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1997. "Greening the Government." Closing the Circle News. Also available at http://www.ofee.gov/ (Office of Federal Environmental Executive), Washington, D.C.

U.S. Department of Defense. 1999. "Whole Building Design Guide," available at http://www.wbdg.org.

Software Products

Databases

Kalin Associates. Green Spec, Green Products Software. Cost $125. Available through Kalin Associates,
154 Wells Ave., Newton Centre, MA 02159, 617/964-5477.

Lopenske, B. NPS Sustainable Design and Construction Database. Available for download at http://www.nps.gov/dsc/dsgncnstr/.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 1996. P2-EDGE Software (Pollution Prevention Environmental Design Guide for Engineers). Available by calling Kim Fowler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 509/372-4233), or kim.fowler@pnl.gov.

Rocky Mountain Institute. 1997. Green Developments. A database of over 100 case-study projects that demonstrate environmentally responsible building development on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is available for $10 through the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) at: CREST, 1200 18th St., NW, Suite 900, Washington, D.C. 20036.
Fax: 202-887-0497, Internet address: http://solstice.crest.org/.

Stafford Harris, Inc. 1995. The Harris Directory. Second Edition. (An Excel 4.0 spreadsheet/database listing of 1,800 environmentally preferable building and construction products. Extracting and sorting capability by state, CSI code, etc. Price is approximately $80.)
Contact: B. J. Harris, Stafford Harris Inc., Architecture Resources, 1916 Pike Place, #705, Seattle, WA
98101-1056, 206/682-4042, fax: 206/447-1640, stafford@igc.apc.org.

Sullivan, Bruce. Resources for Environmental Design Index (REDI), Iris Communications, Inc.
Internet address: http://oikos.com/ E-mail: iris@oikos.com.

Financial Software

Fuller, L. Building Life cycle Cost (BLCC), Software. Can be downloaded directly from http://www.eren.doe.gov/femp (under technical assistance/analytical software tools).

U.S. EPA, P2/Finance Software. Available free of charge through the EPA's Pollution Prevention Information Clearinghouse, MC 3404, 401 M St. SW, Washington, D.C. 20460 202/260-1023.