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Record Nr.

UNINA9910711380203321

Autore

Kneifel Joshua

Titolo

Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) tutorial for new Low-Energy Residential database / / Joshua Kneifel; Eric O Rear; Priya Lavappa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 pages) : illustrations (color)

Collana

NIST technical note ; ; 1919

Altri autori (Persone)

KneifelJoshua

LavappaPriya

O'RearEric

Soggetti

Sustainable architecture

Sustainable design (Buildings)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

May 2016.

Title from PDF title page (viewed May 31, 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

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 tools 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 whole building energy simulations. The measurement system evaluates the sustainability of both the materials and the energy used by buildings 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.