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Dr. Ken Yeang is a prolific Malaysian architect and writer best known for developing environmental design solutions for high-rise buildings. As a principle of T.R. Hamzah & Yeang in Kuala Lumpur, he pioneered the passive low-energy design of skyscrapers, what he has called “bioclimatic” design. In 2005 Yeang became a director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, [...]
The provincial government announced today it will invest $5 million in a program aimed at boosting solar water heating more than sixfold to 3,000 roofs across the province by 2010.
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Once you have drawn a projected solar array on top of the satellite imagery from Google Maps you get a rough estimate on performance and payback of your system based on the drawn area of the array, slope of the roof, location and weather information from the National Renewable Energy Labs.
To complete the full financial [...]
Climate change has emerged as the dominant environmental concern of our times, and buildings, as a sector of the economy, represent the most cost-effective opportunity for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Estimating the carbon footprint of a building can be quite simple or enormously complex, depending on what one needs the estimate to do. The simple [...]
For an average office building in the U.S., 30% more energy is expended by workers getting to and from the building than the building itself uses. For an average office building built to modern energy codes, more than twice as much energy is used by commuters than by the building itself. This data suggests that [...]
LEED 2009 is currently in the Comment Process. If the process goes as planned , the final version of LEED 2009 will be presented at the GreenBuild Conference and Expo in Boston November 19-21 2008 and launched in January 2009.
Curious about the changes?
See the
LEED 2009 Vision & Executive Summary (pdf).
See and listen to a 26minutes [...]
If you missed the talk on Passivhaus design at the Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre by Dr. Guido Wimmers, don’t worry Radio Ecoshock recorded the whole session.
Find more podcasts on climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, and peace at the The Radio Ecoshock Show.
Squint/Opera is a film and media production studio operating within the film and architectural industry.
Using a unique visual language, the company channels and translates the creative investigations of the architectural team on social and environmental impacts into a medium that everyone, from the schoolchild to the Mayor, can understand.
For more information and to view more [...]
“LEED 2009″ focuses on energy and carbon performance of buildings, transparent “weightings” and regional LEED credits
On May 19th the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) opened the first public comment period on LEED 2009, the next evolution of the LEED green building certification system. LEED 2009 represents a reorganization of the existing LEED rating systems for [...]
A few questions for our readers!
Are you an energy modeller working in the early design process of a building?
Do you have experiences with the IDP (Integrated Design Process)?
There are the following workflows/ options for energy modelling in the early design process:
1. Revit -> gbXML -> GBS (Green Buiding Studio) - Web Service
2. Square One - [...]
