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DVRPC Planning and Zoning for Green Buildings

This brochure discusses the benefits of green buildings, and demonstrates how green buildings are an important part of municipal efforts to promote sustainability and reduce greenhouse gasses. The brochure includes information about strategies for building green, green building guideline and certification programs, and promoting green building at the local level. Information about planning for green buildings using incentives, ordinances, and building codes is provided, along with examples of green building programs in the Delaware Valley.

PA High Performance Building Grant & Loan Program

The High Performance Building Program provides financial assistance in the forms of grants and loan funds to underwrite the cost premiums associated with the design and construction or major renovation of high performance buildings in the Commonwealth. The program is administered jointly by the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) under the direction of CFA.