02928aam 2200481I 450 991071138020332120160926090653.0GOVPUB-C13-b43de1fdf4e2335270d2aab46f3943b3(CKB)5470000002482226(OCoLC)958885807(EXLCZ)99547000000248222620160921d2016 ua 0engrdacontentrdamediardacarrierBuilding Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) tutorial for new Low-Energy Residential database /Joshua Kneifel; Eric O Rear; Priya LavappaGaithersburg, MD :U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology,2016.1 online resource (43 pages) illustrations (color)NIST technical note ;1919Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.May 2016.Title from PDF title page (viewed May 31, 2016).Includes bibliographical references.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.Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability Sustainable architectureSustainable design (Buildings)Sustainable architecture.Sustainable design (Buildings)Kneifel Joshua1386477Kneifel Joshua1386477Lavappa Priya1386476O'Rear Eric1401441National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.).Engineering Laboratory.NBSNBSGPONBSBOOK9910711380203321Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) tutorial for new Low-Energy Residential database3470884UNINA