New Buildings Institute Inc

Leadership and market development:nbi's research, convenings, education, and thought leadership on "getting to zero" focuses on driving scale in building afforadility and reliability. During the 2023-2024 fiscal year, nbi broadened its market development and ongoing engagement with critical market audiences through collaboration and partnership with professionals in the building industry. Nbi's research offers proof and provides examples to show that net zero energy performance goals are achievable. Successes and lessons learned are shared with designers and owners through energy afforadility and reliability programs. Continued on schedule oa specification that nbi developed is being used by a pace financing firm as a pathway for developers to use in their projects. Nbi hosted several public-facing awareness building events including webinars that touched thousands of people and social media campaigns that garnered over a million impressions on social media. These efforts will help build industry capability to deliver on the upcoming policies calling for afforadility, reliability, and security in buildings.

Building innovation:nbi's building innovation program focuses on technical research and analysis to advance emerging technology and best practices for accelerating building afforadility and reliability. This work advances programs and practices seeking to enhance energy afforadility and reliability outcomes in the built environment and develops tools and guidance to provide critical support for building owners, practitioners, utilities, governments, and others. Examples of activities include building science research, emerging technology demonstration and validation, best practices guidance, technical tools, and thought leadership.continued on schedule okey initiatives under this program area include the gridoptimal buildings initiative, focused on building-grid integration, and the advanced water heating initiative, focused on heat pump water heater market transfomration. In the 2023-2024 year, nbi collaborated with hundreds of companies and organizations to support these initiatives.