“A fantastic example of best practice integration of performance analysis for sustainable building design.” Via IES VE youtube channel ..
Recorded at the April 2012 monthly meeting of the NYC Revit Users Group, this video features Amy Patel, LEED AP from HOK’s buildingSMART team. She shares an overview of the LEED process, sustainable design credits, which ones can be calculated in a BIM platform and how to do it. Thanks for sharing …
“This method can be applied for LEED NC Energy & Atmosphere Credit 2. This credit requires a calculation for the energy generated by a renewable source. For example, a typical wind turbine model can be selected and the proper values put in according to the manufacturer’s specifications. To make the example more flexible, data was...
The USGBC’s LEED Pilot Credit Library and the public comment version of LEED 2012, which is being developed right now, include nine new pilot credits for Integrative Process and Materials & Resources. Pilot Credit 48: “IP – Discovery: Analysis to Support Integrative Process” is specifically asking to conduct analyses to develop an understanding of key...
This site offers an amazing pool of information on sustainable design issues from Integrated Design checklists, LEED and Energy Modeling roadmaps to documented case studies: “The Harvard Office for Sustainability (formerly Harvard Green Campus Initiative) has developed this Green Building Resource to support the implementation of Harvard’s Green Building Standards and Harvard’s Sustainability Principles. The...
This is one of the most comprehensible abstracts on Energy Modeling and LEED a came across so far: Energy Modeling, ASHRAE 90.1 and LEED (By Andrew J. Kamnik) “The most challenging prerequisite in the LEED for New Construction certification process is the Energy and Atmosphere Prerequisite 2: Minimum Energy Performance. Any project seeking Certified, Silver,...
There is a major battle going on in the woods, in the courts and in the halls of the US Green Building Council, as the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) tries to get LEED changed to accept their certification. … (read more here from treehugger.com)
“We’re thrilled this month to be joined by Scot Horst SR. VP of LEED at the USGBC and Jason McLennan CEO of Cascadia and leader of the Living Building Challenge. We decided to break our discussion into two parts (look for part two next week) in part one we outline the complimentary missions of the...
Leading companies in the construction and real estate industry in Norway have chosen the BREEAM system as a starting point for the Norwegian environmental classification of buildings. This was choosen over LEED which was also considered as a role model. Read this news article translated from Norwegian …
This is indeed an interesting article/ slideshow. Thanks for sharing this through your ‘Life at HOK‘ blog. It’s not quite a fair comparison as the Passive House standard seems not compatible with with a lot of building types so far. Residences and schools seem to work great. The New York Times did a great graphical...
Manitoba Hydro Place, the new headquarters of the fourth largest energy utility in Canada, recently opened its doors in downtown Winnipeg. The 22-storey office tower with LEED Platinum target was designed by Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (Toronto) with Smith Carter Architects (Winnipeg) and climate engineers Transsolar (Stuttgart). According to the architects, Manitoba Hydro Place...
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