• Green building organizations and information sources

Welcome to the Window & Door Green Resource Center. This special section of our Web site is designed to provide to meet the growing need for information and help to address the needs and concerns of green customers.  Combining exclusive content with articles from Window & Door’s archives, links to outside resources and more, these pages will be regularly updated to provide manufacturers, distributors and dealers with answers to their questions on green building programs, product certification, and the new opportunities and challenges created by heightened awareness of the environmental impacts of windows, doors and skylights.

Featured Content

What Green Building Programs Say about Windows and Doors
• A look at minimum performance requirements and available credits for industry products within LEED for Homes.

• A look at minimum performance requirements and available points for industry products within the draft National Green Building Standard.

• Making Green Fenestration Products with Certified Wood
• Demonstration Home Shows the Light
• Will Windows Be Used For Solar Power?
• Green Building Movement Enters the Mainstream
• Demand Accelerating For Alternative Materials
• Are Windows Entering An Electronic Age?

What Green Homes Look Like
• A slideshow of homes certified under the LEED for Homes
pilot program

Green Building Links

• Green building organizations and information sources
• Energy efficiency information sources
• Product certification & standard organizations
• Materials & manufacturing
• Green-related articles/resources from other web sites
• Regional Green Building Programs