Sustainable Preservation Information Resources
Resources
American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment/Sustainability
Association for Preservation Technology International
Build It Green
California Climate Action Registry
California Energy Commission
Clinton Climate Initiative
Green California
Green Building Alliance
LEED for Existing Buildings / Neighborhood Development
Portfolio Manager Energy Star Benchmarking
Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco
U. S. Green Building Council (USGBC) (LEED)
Whole Building Design Guide – Sustainable Historic Preservation
Whole Building Design Guide – Sustainability
Whole Building Design Guide – Historic Preservation
International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is a democratic, international association of national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development, founded in 1990. ICLEI offers a broad range of campaigns and programs that address local sustainability issues while protecting global common goods (such as air quality, climate, water), and link local action to internationally agreed goals and targets.
ICLEI provides information, delivers training, organizes conferences, facilitates networking and city-to-city exchanges, carries out research and pilot projects, and offers technical services and consultancy; helps local governments generate political awareness of key issues; establish plans of action towards defined, concrete, measurable targets; work towards meeting these targets through the implementation of projects; and evaluate local and cumulative progress toward sustainable development.
Local governments in California have used the technical services of ICLEI to help them quantify their consumption of resources and generation of wastes for use as benchmarks to measure anticipated progress in environmental sustainability.
National Trust - Sustainability Initiative aims to help people better understand preservation’s value in fostering development that is environmentally, economically and socially sustainable. More and more projects are demonstrating that older buildings can “go green.” The Sustainability Initiative website is a “best practices” resource for employing green technology in the reuse and rehabilitation of historic structures.
NPS PRESERVATION SERVICES
NPS TECHNICAL PRESERVATION BRIEFS
Technical Preservation Services has helped home owners, preservation professionals, organizations, and government agencies by publishing easy-to read guidance on preserving, rehabilitating and restoring historic buildings. Preservation Briefs 1-43 are now available online and include the following briefs related to sustainability;
03: Conserving Energy in Historic Buildings
04: Roofing for Historic Buildings
08: Aluminum and Vinyl Siding on Historic Buildings: The Appropriateness of Substitute Materials for Resurfacing Historic Wood Frame Buildings
09: The Repair of Historic Wooden Windows
13: The Repair and Thermal Upgrading of Historic Steel Windows
14: New Exterior Additions to Historic Buildings: Preservation Concerns
16: The Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Building Exteriors
24: Heating, Ventilating, and Cooling Historic Buildings: Problems and Recommended Approaches
28: Painting Historic Interiors
41: The Seismic Retrofit of Historic Buildings: Keeping Preservation in the Forefront