GBC Features Benefits Calculator
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Features & Benefits
| Features | Benefits |
| What it Means to Declarers | Enables ‘Declarers’ to engage more robustly with Climate Emergency |
| Enables engagement with RIBA Climate Challenge | |
| Enables Architectural competition entries to be supported by competent performance data | |
| Enables engagement with Architects Climate Action Network ambitions | |
| What it Means to your Business opportunities | Addressing Climate Emergency can become part of your ‘New Normal’ |
| Enable users to offer ‘Deep-retrofit’ to their existing clients | |
| Enable you to offer ‘Deep-retrofit’ and attract a new Climate Emergency focussed customer base | |
| What it Means to your Practice activities | Gives users access to equivalent tools that most individuals cannot afford |
| Facilitates behaviour change by providing data for comparison and justification of better long term choices | |
| Enables defence of good decisions in Value Engineering exercises | |
| Allows easy consideration and comparison of better than ‘Business as Usual’ and ‘Legal Minimum’ regulations | |
| Allows easy consideration and comparison of better PH, CL, LETI energy standards over regulations | |
| What it Means to Students and Graduates | Students and graduates can have new skills on CV that many Practices do not yet have |
| Enables graduates and young professionals to bring new services to Practice’s attention | |
| Enable ‘Grey Hairs’ to keep up with induction graduate’s expectations | |
| What it Means to One person and small practices | They can become autonomous and do some consultancy services themselves |
| Enables them to do much more then they could before | |
| What it does not do | It does not replace AECB CL & CLR or PHPP and EnerPHit but enables many to experience what they do to a building |
| Users wanting to do Passivhaus need to focus more on the thermal bridge and air tightness details, etc. and get formal training | |
| What it will do once developed | It will be closer to but still will not be equivalent to AECB CL & CLR or PHPP and EnerPHit |
| And it does a lot of other things too | |
| What it is and does | How that helps you |
| Multi-functional Green Building Calculator | Does what you want but thought you could never do yourself |
| Does what you want but thought you had to pay and arm and a leg for | |
| Useful for Architects, Technicians/Technologies, Surveyors | |
| Useful for Building Performance advisors, Energy Advisors, Energy Consultants, Carbon reduction consultants | |
| Useful for Builders, Constructors, Contractors, Sub-contractors, for regulation compliance, cost or variation comparisons | |
| Useful to Self Builders to check the quote specifications fit the building targets before they buy | |
| Brings together many calculations in a single place all interlinked so one change filtres throughout | |
| All the parts are in place, correct format linked to correct data sources so no more searching your college knowledge | |
| Saves you time | |
| Broader Service Offering to Clients is possible | |
| More in-house skills | |
| Less reliance upon external consultants | |
| What it does | How that helps you |
| Elemental Energy Analysis with Cost Data | Analyse result of spending more money on more insulation and/or more expensive glazing |
| Energy and Carbon in Use | Instant Carbon in Use calculation |
| It was created for New build | |
| It works for any building use | Hours of operation and room working temperatures can be set |
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31st October 2020 – 14th July 2026
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