GBE CPD Metadata

• File Name:
  • GBC Poster MaD 100521 4H3.pdf PDF handout
  • GBC Poster MaD 100521 S10.pdf PDF show
• File Type: PDF of PPTX
• File Size:
  • PDF Handout: 1 mb
  • PDF Show: 5.5 mb
  • PPTX Show: 4.79 mb
• Number of Slides/Pages:
  • PDF Handout: 3 Pages
  • PDF Show: 10 Slides of 13
• Created for: CIBSE Convention Poster, MaD Make a Difference Network
• Presented to: MaD hangout #3 10/05/2021 WEBINAR
• Author: BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy ONC HNC Construction BSc Dip Architecture (Hons+Dist)
• © GBE GBL GBC NGS ASWS 08/05/2021 – 10/05/2021
• Created: 08/05/2021
• Revision: A01
• Updated: 10/05/2021
• Tags: CPD, Lecture, Poster, Webinar, Video, Green Building Calculator V2
• ProductSets: Methods of Construction, Materials, Building Elements, Carbon counting
• UserGroups: Students, Architects, Assistants, Technicians, Engineers, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects, Constructors

GBE CPD Content

(without images; See the slide show for the pictures)

• We all need to count carbon,
  during Covid lockdown I built Green Building Calculator
  12 months 2 lockdowns later
  Version 2 is on its wayPPTX on a useful website
  https://GreenBuildingEcyclopaedia.uk/?P=39538
  XLSX on another website
  https://GreenBuildingCalculator.uk/ V1 so far

MaD Make a Difference

MaD Hangout No.3

10th May 2021 6:30 pm

@BrianSpecMan

• Architectural Technician and Architect by training (45 years)
• Specification writer by choice (36)
  • –£2415m specified, British Library, Bluewater, etc,
• NBS Specification trainer (5 years 28 years ago)
• CPD Provider (26 years & >1000 PPTX seminars)
  • –Met MaD Edith at one in Reading
• Environmentalist by action (22 years)
• Public Speaker (22 years)
• Educator by calling (14 y, despite RIBA Syllabus)
• Waste & Recycling Research (3 years 15 y ago)
• 3 Websites: writer and editor (10 years & 2090 pages, 30,000 to go, 30 awards) GBE GBL GBC
• 9000 term Jargon Buster
• Number cruncher (11 years see above)
• Interreg Project CAPEM on LCA (5 years)
• Bat and Bird Roost Book author 2 editions
• Green Building Calculator (1 year, 3 awards already)
• 4 weeks from being pensioned off
• Starting my 4th career and I won’t stop now

In a 45 year career

• I see Clients wishing to invest well in a green, healthy, economic to run and functional building to fit the business like a glove
• End up with what our industry gives them not what they wanted
• I have seen battens dropped at every stage by every party
• I have seen building projects go from green to violet (BAU)
• Driven by QS towards business as usual cheapness by default
• Starts with a violet cost plan for a green building, tendered by a violet contractor with a violet supply chain, all the green healthy bits get cut out to meet the violet cost plan
• I see Value Engineering (Grenfell’s Hackett’s Race to the Bottom) happening even before going to tender
• Contractors substituting and surreptitious substituting for cheaper incompetent materials and products on site
• Performance gaps between designed and built performance
• I want a Quality Surveyor not a Quantity Surveyor
• I want Architects to be able to cost plan their own projects
• I want a Green Building Price Book for all to use
• We now have to care about carbon, become carbon literate and know enough to care and defend the specification and building in-use performance
• I want all powerful calculators to let us see instantaneously the ramifications of any change of specification
• I am reminded to be the changes we want to see in the world

GBC Ambitions

• Create a Design & Decision Tool (more than LCA)
• Help clients get what they want
  • –Stop Green projects turning Violet
  • –Help avoid the ‘race to the bottom’
  • –Practice well-informed Value Engineering
• Not cost cutting of individual components
  • –Set targets: regulation minimum or best practice
• Calculate the embodied energy and carbon in a whole building
  • –in all the materials, products, fixed furniture, equipment, services, landscape, everything
• Calculate the cost of those materials, products
• Calculate the in-use energy of the same building
  • –Fuel choice used to heat building,
• Carbon factor in that fuel
  • –In-use carbon
• Calculate the costs of chosen fuel
• Compare with targets and adjust if needed

GBC Method

• Create an Excel calculator to make that process familiar, easy, consistent and comprehensive
• Make it rich in product and materials datasets that can be engaged easily
  • –Prevent their misuse by limiting choices to intention
  • –Manufacturers inform its designed intended use
  • –Avoid more Grenfell; GBC’s Golden Thread of information
• Readymade building elements with components to populate with materials or product choices
  • –Choices automatically populates many cells with datasets
  • –Choose: Existing, remove, replace or new
• It to automatically calculate every decision you make
• Allow you to change anything and see many calculations update instantaneously
  • –Dimensions, performance, quantities, hours, fuel choice, temperatures, materials, products, costs,
• Do real well informed system Value Engineering
  • –Not dumb individual Cost Cutting

Sharing GBC

• Make it available to others
  • –To use themselves, in house
• better equipped staff, aim towards carbon literacy
  • –Or as a consultancy offering (to them or by them)
  • –Supporting RIBA Competitions: Carbon datasets
  • –Analyse: house types, construction method, etc.
• Make it easy to use
  • –Colour coded excel cell functions, add choose check
  • –Conditional formatting,
• green to violet, warnings, confirmations
  • –Drop down lists to choose from (avoid miss-typing)
  • –Sets of instructions to follow
• Popup instructions to add later
• Audio or Video instruction to add asap.
• As cheap as possible so accessible by many
  • –But pay for its development, upkeep and 29 version improvements, on an annual subscription
• V1 Available: https://GreenBuildingCalculator.uk V2 soon

GBC Future 29 Versions

• Get it independently accredited as competent
• User group & steering group: prioritise development
• Add hyperlinks into Green Building Encyclopaedia
• More Product Dataset and Prices
  • –More LCA and EPD datasets
• 892 Readymade Elemental Assemblies
  • –Walls Floors Roofs (passivhaus compliant)
  • –Users Bespoke elements (offer discounts)
  • –Manufacturer Accredited Assemblies and Systems
• Other disciplines: (started but future development)
  • –Interiors & Furniture
  • –Mech. Elec. Lighting, Public Health Services
  • –Infrastructure & Landscape
• Other Issues:
  • –waste, plastics, reclaim, reuse, biodiversity,
• Specification Generator
  • –& FM Maintenance Spec
• Green Building Price Book
• Users datasets <> discount > subscription year(s) off
• BIM App to get dimensions and BoM from Model

© GBE 2021

• Brian Murphy ONC HNC Construction, BSc Dip Architecture (Hons+Dist)
• E   BrianSpecMan@icloud.com
• Greening up my act since 1999
• Founded National Green Specification 2001
• Founded funded launched www.greenspec.co.uk 2003
• GBE at https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk 2012 – 2021
• GBL Learning: https://GBELearning.com 2020 – 2021
• GBC at https://GreenBuildingCalculator.uk 2011 – 2021
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