Save Water America: Water Calculators. Sustainable By Design. Sustainability 2030 Toolkit. The AIA's Position on High Performance Buildings & Rating Systems The AIA recognizes a growing body of evidence that demonstrates current planning, design, construction, and real estate practices contribute to patterns of resource consumption that seriously jeopardize the future of the Earth's population.
Architects need to accept responsibility for their role in creating the built environment and, consequently, believe we must alter our profession's actions and encourage our clients and the entire design and construction industry to join with us to change the course of the planet's future. AIA High Performance Buildings Position Statement The AIA Sustainability Discussion Group's Definition of Sustainability and Carbon Reduction Sustainability envisions the enduring prosperity of all living things.
AIA's Carbon Emission Reduction Targets By 2010: New Buildings - 50% 2010 – 60% 2015 – 70% 2020 – 80% 2025 – 90% 2030 - net zero carbon emissions 50% of What? AIA's Sustainable Ratings Systems. Green in Practice 106 - Life Cycle Analysis. The building life-cycle cost (BLCC) software from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provides economic analysis of capital investments, energy, and operating costs of buildings, systems, and components.
The software includes the means to evaluate costs and benefits of energy conservation and complies with ASTM standards related to building economics and Federal Energy Management Program requirements. The service life of building interiors and equipment is often considered to be 30 years, but the average life of the building shell is in the range of 50 to 100 years. Studies that use too short of a service life, for example 20 years, result in too much emphasis on construction materials and not enough on maintenance and operational energy. A life cycle assessment (LCA) is an environmental assessment of the life cycle of a product.
An LCA of a building is necessary to evaluate the environmental impact of a building over its life. An LCI is the first stage of a LCA. Software: BEES. The BEES (Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability) software brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for selecting cost-effective, environmentally-preferable building products.
Developed by the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Engineering Laboratory the tool is based on consensus standards and designed to be practical, flexible, and transparent. BEES Online, aimed at designers, builders, and product manufacturers, includes actual environmental and economic performance data for 230 building products. BEES measures the environmental performance of building products by using the life-cycle assessment approach specified in the ISO 14040 series of standards. All stages in the life of a product are analyzed: raw material acquisition, manufacture, transportation, installation, use, and recycling and waste management.
BEES Model: NREL: OpenStudio. Energy 10® Software. Energy Design Tools. OpenStudio Plug-in for Google SketchUp. Friday, November 12, 2010 Sketchup OpenStudio Plug-in for Google SketchUp makes it easy to create and edit the building geometry in your EnergyPlus input files.
This free plug-in also allows you to launch EnergyPlus simulations and view the results without leaving the Google SketchUp 3D drawing program About the OpenStudio Plug-in OpenStudio Plug-in allows you to use the standard SketchUp tools to create and edit EnergyPlus zones and surfaces. The plug-in adds the building energy simulation capabilities of EnergyPlus to the SketchUp environment. Highlights of OpenStudio Plug-in include the ability to: This plug-in makes it easier to work with EnergyPlus. OpenStudio Plug-in for Google SketchUp was created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory for the U.S.
Version 1.0.6 Release Notes This newest release is updated to work with EnergyPlus 6.0 and Google SketchUp 8.0. Flickering dialogsPush/pull of face in SketchUp 8Push/pull of divided face. Software Requirements Installation Instructions.