The Commercial Buildings Initiative was founded in 2006 by six organizations: the Alliance to Save Energy, AIA, ASHRAE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Green Building Council, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. An expanded consortium brings together owners, financiers, manufacturers, practitioners, policy makers, regulators, program planners, researchers, funding agencies and other stakeholders as a public-private collaboration for technology innovation and process change.
CBI’s overall goal is to plan, coordinate, and implement a comprehensive set of activities to transform energy performance in the commercial sector over the next two to three decades. Together, these activities create a series of action plans to deliver across the diversity of the commercial sector: by building type, climate, ownership, management, and stages in a building’s life cycle. The CBI action plans are a key part of the national challenge to transform the energy efficiency of the built environment.
For more information, visit http://www.zeroenergycbi.org/ or contact Jeff Harris (jharris@ase.org).
Updated: August 19, 2008