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Carbon Buzz
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- Designed & Actual Building Energy Performance
- Benchmarking opportunity
- Carbon Buzz
- This is about results of existing buildings not a design evaluation tool
- This had £750,000 TSB Government investment as part of Design & Decision Tools (approximately 20 projects supported)
- Participants:
- Aedas Architects Limited, Judit Kimpian
- RIBA
- CIBSE
- BRE
- UCL
- XCO2 ENERGY Limited
- Feilden Clegg Bradley
- Includes Usable Building Trust Probe studies
- Project ambitions:
- benchmark and track project energy use from design to operation.
- To create an authoritative database on design and actual energy use of buildings.
- Scope: Newbuild, commercial and residential, operating energy only.
GBE Editorial Comment:
- Enables users to record actual energy performance against designed performance,
- It has capability to record building fabric but not in much detail.
- Suggestion: needs to be capable of recording the building fabric method of construction materials and U values,
- It needs to be about the building fabric that reduces the need for energy inputs, it is not just about services that deliver energy to meet the shortfall.
- An Outline Specification (as built) may be sufficient
- Consider uploading CAD files (better still BIM ready CAD file?)
- See GBE Evidence Based Case which tries to do all there things and more
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
27th September 2013 – 9th June 2023
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Building Energy Performance
Designed, Actual & Benchmarking
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
27th September 2013 – 12th December 2022
See Also:
GBE Evidence Based Case
- GBE Evidence Based Case (Navigation) G#1579 N#1512
GBC Green Building Calculator
- GBC Green Building Calculator (Navigation) G#38828
GBE Projects
- CAPEM
- Carbon Buzz
- Carbon Lite Programme
- SUSStations
- UK Net Zero Carbon (UK NZC) Building Standard
GBE Jargon Buster
- AECB (Jargon Buster) G#1007 N#1027
- BECD
- CAPEM
- LEBD
- PHT
- UK NZC BS
- AECB Association for Environment Conscious Building (JB) G#1007 N#1027
- Carbon Buzz
- CarbonBuzz (Jargon Buster) G#973 N#994
- Carbon lite (Programme) (CLP)
- Cycle Assessment Procedure for Eco Materials (CAPEM)
- Green Gauge
- Low Energy Building Database (LEBD)
- by AECB
- Passive House Trust (PHT)
- Probe studies
- (in Carbon Buzz)
- SUSStations
- UK Net Zero Carbon (UK NZC)
- Usable Building Trust
- (Author of Probe Studies)
GBE Links
- Carbon Buzz (2013)
- Low Energy Building Database (LEBD) (2022)
- Usable Building Trust
- Probe studies
- SUSStations (Interreg Project) 2008-2012
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
27th September 2013 – 9th June 2023
