The publisher of Environmental Building News launched the BuildingGreen Suite at the U.S. Green Building Council’s “Greenbuild” conference November 12 in Pittsburgh. This suite of online tools offers architects and building industry professionals integrated information for work on LEED™-registered and other green projects.

“Building industry professionals are asking for more immediate access to better information on sustainable design, and introduction of the BuildingGreen Suite offers them the comprehensive Web-based resources for completing client projects that they are asking for,” says Alex Wilson, president of BuildingGreen Inc. and executive editor of Environmental Building News.

BuildingGreen believes that the most significant benefits to online subscribers of their BuildingGreen Suite are:

• Online access to the GreenSpec® Directory of product listings, cross- referenced with articles and case studies and searchable by CSI MasterFormat™, LEED credit, and green topics, with new products added each month and listings updated continually.
• Online access to 12 years of Environmental Building News articles, cross-referenced with GreenSpec and searchable by CSI , LEED credit, and green topics. An electronic issue of the latest monthly newsletter is added as the print issue goes to press.
• Online access to case studies of more than 60 high-performance buildings, cross-referenced with GreenSpec and searchable by location, building type, LEED rating, and others.
• A powerful search engine that enables building professionals to pinpoint information on green strategies, building products, news, opinions, and trends in the industry.

BuildingGreen’s subscribers include most architecture, engineering, and construction firms with an interest in green buildings, as well as building professionals in other organizations and agencies. The company reports that a handful of leading firms, including HOK, Gensler, and William McDonough + Partners, have already purchased firmwide licenses to the BuildingGreen Suite.

The development of the BuildingGreen Suite has been supported, in part, by a contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to build the new capabilities and bring this new service to architects and contractors throughout New York State. Other support has come from conversation, testing, and use of these tools by a number of national and regional architecture firms.

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