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WHOLE BUILDING DESIGN GUIDE (WBDG):

WBDG is a comprehensive, internet-based portal to a wide range of federal and private sector, building-related guidance, criteria & technology. It creatively links information across traditional professional disciplines to encourage integrated thinking and a "whole building" performance. Users can access WBDG information via: 1) Design Guidance, 2) Project Management, 3) Operation and Maintenance, and 4) Mandates/References. Through the categories, users are directed to topical resource pages prepared by industry/government experts. These pages provide information and links to federal and private criteria on the particular subject. The WBDG’s goal, "...to provide a web portal for the uniform access and use of facility information in a knowledge based management environment," is achieved by providing users of the portal a single point access to public and private sector criteria through the Construction Criteria Base (CCB) library. Since the Whole Building Design Guide was inaugurated in 2001, its usage has grown to approximately 1.5 million unique visitors annually, and more than one million document are downloaded per month.

• CONSTRUCTION CRITERIA BASE (CCB) www.ccb.org
  CCB is a comprehensive online library of over 10,000 design criteria, other construction documents and executable programs from federal and private organizations. CCB brings together guide specifications, technical & design manuals, and much more, from a single online source, the WBDG.

• BUILDING ENVELOPE DESIGN GUIDE
  Under guidance from the Federal Envelope Advisory Committee, NIBS has developed the Building Envelope Design Guide. The new resource on the WBDG is a comprehensive guide for exterior envelope design and construction for institutional/office buildings. Though specifically intended for Federal Government agency projects, the information in the guidelines are also applicable to many privately developed projects–whether of a commercial or institutional nature–which are essentially similar in use and construction to equivalent government structures. http://www.wbdg.org/design/env_introduction.php.