4specs.com
4specs.com is an architectural library service for Specified Construction Products™. 4specs.com is an efficient way to access manufacturer’s websites for product information.
Code Check
The Code Check Series are condensed guides to the most commonly cited code violations encountered by building inspectors. They try to emphasize the central life-safety principles that underlie building codes throughout the United States.
ICBO (The International Conference of Building Officials)
The International Code Council is dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, developing the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools. You have access to product evaluations, code adoption, seminars, certification, online training, and upcoming events.
Sustainable Building
Building Green
Is an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings.
Environmental Building News
Environmental Building News (EBN) is a monthly newsletter featuring comprehensive, practical information on a wide range of topics related to sustainable building, from energy efficiency and recycled-content materials to land-use planning and indoor air quality.
Northwest EcoBuilding Guild
The Northwest EcoBuilding Guild is an association of builders, designers, homeowners, tradespeople, manufacturers, suppliers, and others interested in ecologically sustainable building.
US Green Building Council
The US Green Building Council (USGBC) is the nation's foremost coalition of leaders from across the building industry working to promote buildings that are environmentally responsible, profitable, and healthy places to live and work.
Sustainable Corvallis
The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is a network of organizations and citizens in Corvallis and Benton County who are working together to accelerate the creation of a sustainable community.
Building Magazines
ArchitectureWeek
Is a magazine of design and building online, providing news and features weekly on architecture and construction, digital media, and building culture. They cover new buildings as they open worldwide, and a broad spectrum of design, technical, and cultural issues. Subscribe for free to their newsletters including Residential Tuesday, housing design and construction, and Green Design Wednesday, sustainable design and building.
Builder Online
You can find product specs and manufacturers via ebuild, news, access to magazine content, books, house plans, free subscriptions to e-mail newsletters, and services and software for builders from the BUILDER Yellow Pages.
Fine Homebuilding
Sign up for their free Fine Homebuilding eLetter, monthly tips and advice, and/or Fine Homebuilding GREEN eLetter, bi-monthly "green building" projects and innovations. Find articles and information on most any homebuilding subject, along with a bookstore, blogs on homebuilding and videos.
Traditional Building
The resources in the magazine are used for restoring and renovating old buildings as well as for designing and constructing new buildings in traditional styles. It’s for professionals who need to know where to locate hard-to-find historical products and services for commercial buildings and other public properties; it is a "where-to-find-it" publication.
Window & Door Magazine
This magazine is written for window and door manufacturers, but can provide some insight into what is happening with the industry. Find news, articles from the magazine, and archives of both at this site.
