CLIMATE SCOUT helps its users design buildings that uniquely respond to a site by providing climate-specific design advice at the building scale. It pairs the Köppen-Geiger climate classification and building design strategies from Architecture 2030’s Palette.
How to use CLIMATE SCOUT
Building tours: they’ve been a vital educational component of green building from day one. But now COVID-19 has made them unsafe. Thanks to the Sustainability Leader Peer Networks we help convene, BuildingGreen has compiled a list of online tours and other videos that you can view from the safety of home.
A U-value, Time Lag, and Decrement Factor calculator opaque wall or roof surfaces.
OPAQUE calculates the U-value, Time Lag, and Decrement Factor for wall or roof opaque surfaces composed of a single or multiple layers. These can be used to calculate the Heat Gain or Loss through the surface. Composite surfaces are constructed by the user from a library of materials and displayed in two or three dimensions.
SBEED is a user-friendly energy design tool shows how much money you can save by making changes for a small (commercial) building .
This new easy-to-use Design Tool starts by automatically creating a reference small non-residential building that meets California’s Energy Code. Then it automatically creates a second building that is usually about 20% more Energy Efficient. You can then copy either one and revise its design and compare it with prior versions of up to nine different designs.
HEED is a user-friendly energy design tool shows how much money you can save by making changes to your home.
This new easy-to-use Design Tool starts by automatically creating a reference house that meets California’s Energy Code. Then it creates a second home that is about 30% more Energy Efficient. You can design and compare up to nine different homes.
Software tool to help in studying the effect of different design elements on the noise level and NC rating for rooms. It covers noise concepts and calculations such as NC, dBA, RT, STC and NCB typically included in building science courses.
SBSEers at the Québec City Retreat worked toward developing a new carbon-sensitive version of Malcolm Wells environmental checklist
Please examine the draft and send comments to Bruce Haglund.
