For oxymeprime crossfit users record keeping on design projects

Input page: Sizes, Areas and Volumes, hours of operation, design temperatures, inside and out

Input page: more specific than whole building if required; Areas and volumes, hours of operation, design temperatures, inside and out

Room by room heat loss calculator to determine Boiler size, radiator or underfloor heating requirements,

Developed to help designer to make the insulation thicknesses or window specifications to match a boiler capacity when it’s a tight fit

Analysis of Form Factor and optimal U values to respond to them

To help designers see the importance of compactness, or the consequence of fragmentation of the building volume, on the energy consumption

See Update 2.3 

Building Elements and secondary-elements are selected from readymade lists of 29 Elements and 12 Secondary Elements to match the scope of the project

Building Elements and secondary-elements: their dimensions are added by user and their areas are automatically calculated.

Since windows and doors come in a multitude of sized then a GBE Green Building Calculator schedules allows you to incorporate them all

Allows the users to compare and choose between Building Regulations Part L, other national regulations or standards, LETI, AECB carbonLite, Passivhaus, EnerPHit, EAMs, etc.

including: U values, Airtightness, Form factors, Elevational window %.

Users apply the chosen U value targets from the previous worksheet

GBE Green Building Calculator automatically displays the thickness of different k valued insulation materials needed to meet U values targeted in each element.

Automatically see what thickness of different k valued insulation materials is needed to avoid overheating on summer

See Update 2.1

Version 3.1

A list of terms used in GBE Green Building Calculator with some explanation of their meaning in a tabulated format

Potential link to GBE Jargon Buster pages

Allows the user to populate and assemble elements by choosing their combination of functional components and then choosing the materials for each component.

Components are in the right sequence but it may needs some know-how to choose the right one (Update 3 will help with readymade assemblies)

Costs of insulation and windows are added here to help persuade architects and clients to spend money on insulation and higher performance windows and glazing.

Allows user to cost plan their Building with a Bill of materials, quantities, labour and costs based on building fabric only so far.

It will be reliant upon users interrogating recent tender rates or building price books

Services are planned to be addressed in update 1.4-1.7 (unless users say otherwise)

Non-external envelope components are planned to be developed in Phase 5.4 (unless users want it sooner)

See Update 1.2 & 1.3

interrogated by GBE Green Building Calculator: Elements

Started building a dataset of materials with performances to add to and populate GBE Green Building Calculator: Elements

Started building a dataset of products with performance and costs to add to and populate the GBE Green Building Calculator: Elements

Started building a dataset of products with properties performance and costs to add to and populate the GBE Green Building Calculator: Elements

Element Summary compares calculated elemental U values with user chosen or target U values

GBE Green Building Calculator works out energy losses from each element and secondary-elements to give total losses or demands

GBE Green Building Calculator works out each element and secondary elements total demands as %s of the whole

Allows comparisons to be made by the user to prompt reconsideration of earlier decisions

E.g. To potentially spend more money on insulation or better windows to reduce running costs

By choosing the fuel source the GBE Green Building Calculator works out the CO2 generated In use

The information source for fuels carbon factors for the previous calculation

Needs regular updates from Defra

If the information provided by Manufacturers/Suppliers is not in £/m2

GBE Green Building Calculator will help with converting the information provided to the required format for the calculator to function correctly

Used to populate cells with readymade answers to avoid typing, avoid errors and limit choices

Lists can be added to, as long as the last two cells remain at bottom of sets

This is not part of the GBE Green Building Calculator function but for consistency and inter operability the layout of data donated needs to be consistent

This schedule may change from time to time to maintain consistency with newer functionality to enable auto populating of cells

Used to request information on products from manufacturers or suppliers to permit incorporation into datasets

Develop missing parts: Refurbishment Elemental Assemblies (started)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Description of Systems and all component parts, pipe or cable lengths

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

To be completed:  (using exiting equation and datasets) (started)

Supplier and manufacturer collaboration needed to populate these further

Manufacturer donated information added for free, but checked by GBE first

Users will be encouraged to contribute any data for free update

Development: Engage more methods of calculating

Incorporate: dormers, bays, oriel windows, porches, conservatories, lean-tos into calculations

Building Section with Element, Sub Element and Junctions Coding (Sketched up principles so far)

Materials applicable to applications matrix with section Codes (PEF Schedule Exists: develop) 

GBE BEACoN Building Element Assembly Code Numbers (using GBE 892 Competent Elemental Assembly Dataset)

To be developed: (using GBE 892 Competent Elemental Assembly Dataset)

To be expanded: (Using GBE 892 Competent Elemental Assembly Dataset + Others)

Develop Bespoke assemblies: (Invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

GBS Green Building Specification Generator: (using GBE 892 Competent Elemental Assembly Dataset)

Develop missing parts: Refurbishment Elemental Assemblies (started)

Develop missing parts: Elemental Assemblies (started)

Develop missing parts: Elemental Assemblies (started)

Update from 1.6 to 3.0 (Query a licence to pay?)

To be developed: from exiting GBE Embodied Energy Embodied Carbon Sequestered Carbon Calculator (EE EC SC)

Adding: non-envelop elements and services to existent building fabric calculations

To engage with GBE Green Building EE EC SC Calculator once merged in

Might be auto completed having chosen materials in GBE Green Building Calculator: Elements

To be Created:  (using existing dataset and new equations)

To be started:

GreenGauge to be approached to guide or carryout its develop?

To be developed: Frame %, Ug, Uf, Uw, U values, G Values, Psi values, datasets (started)

GreenGauge to be approached to guide or carryout its develop?

Query a Licence to pay?

To be developed:

German Site to be approached

Query a licence to pay?

To be developed: (Based on EN 15804 Schedule)

To be developed: Approach Renuables for dataset and to carryout or advise only?

May be a Licence to pay?

Description of Elements and components with values

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Description of Elements and components with values

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Description of Elements and components with values

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)

Schedules of prices (invite users to contribute information for free upgrade)