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Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS): Technical Manual and User Guide

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS): Technical Manual and User Guide

Kneifel, Joshua
Lippiatt, Barbara C.

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1500312886
ISBN13: 9781500312886
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 24 2014
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.33 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Building stakeholders need practical metrics, data, and tools to support decisions related to sustainable building designs, technologies, standards, and codes. The Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has addressed this high priority national need by extending its metrics and tool for sustainable building products, known as Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES), to whole buildings. Whole building sustainability metrics have been developed based on innovative extensions to life-cycle assessment (LCA) and life-cycle costing (LCC) approaches involving building energy simulations. The measurement system evaluates the sustainability of both the materials and the energy used by a building over time. It assesses the carbon footprint of buildings as well as 11 other environmental performance metrics, and integrates economic performance metrics to yield science- based measures of the business case for investment choices in high-performance green buildings.

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