Archive for the 'Sustainability' Category
Autodesk Ecotect Solar Analysis data can be imported into ParaCloud Modeler and converted as solar numeric matrix. The matrix data can be used as a population matrix or as driving parameters values.
On the ParaCloud Community Blog you can find a tutorial that covers the following subjects:
Importing surface from ParaCloud into Ecotect
Exporting Ecotect solar calculation data [...]
The McKinsey for Vattenfall Report “A Cost Curve for Greenhouse Gas Reduction” investigates popular greenhouse gas reduction strategies and their related costs. Almost a quarter of possible emission reductions would result from measures that carry no net life cycle cost – in effect, they come free of charge. Most of those measures are related to [...]
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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Energy – it is used to build, heat, power and maintain houses. The German government believes that every building should be issued with an energy certificate detailing just how many kilowatts it consumes. This would make it easier for homeowners and tenants to monitor their energy consumption and, of course, would help protect the environment.
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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 [...]
The state of Hawaii has become the first in North America to require solar water heaters in new homes. The bill, signed into law by Republican Governor Linda Lingle, prohibits issuing building permits for single-family homes that do not have solar water heaters.
All new homes will be required to have the energy-saving systems installed starting [...]
