About us
The Best
Practices Research Alliance is a collaborative research and
development initiative founded by IBACOS and aligned with the U.S. Department of
Energy's Building America program. The overall goal of
the Alliance is to help accelerate progress toward making green,
high-performance homes an everyday reality.
Three main groups form the Alliance:
- Innovative homebuilders of all sizes
throughout the U.S. help define, shape, and guide the core work of
the Alliance by providing input during the planning stages,
participating in specific research projects and engaging in
research-related discussions through our online
community.
- Industry suppliers and other sponsors
share the vision of accelerating green, high-performance
homebuilding and offer resources, such as materials or funding,
needed to conduct research projects.
- IBACOS, a homebuilding research and quality
consulting firm, leads and manages the day-to-day activities.
If you're a builder, developer, manufacturer or expert and you'd
like to participate in the Alliance, contact us.