11/14/2011

The International Living Future Insitute (ILFI), administrator of the Living Building Challenge, has anounced that they are spinning off Net-Zero Certification into it's own program.  This action is in response to the need for verification of net-zero claims, and also to encourage projects that may not pursue all of the imperatives of the Living Building Challenge to focus on energy.  Certification for Net-Zero includes 12 months of post-occupancy performance monitoring....so certification is not based on modeled results, but the true energy use and production.  If the annual energy use is equal to or less than energy production, the project meets the Net-Zero goal.  Curious?  Check out more detail here.