Building Industry Reporting And Design For Sustainability Birds Low Energy Residential Database Technical Manual

Author : National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology
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ISBN 13 : 9781983822124
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book BIRDS V3. 1 Low-Energy Residential Database Technical Manual written by National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. A sustainability measurement system has been developed consisting of whole-building sustainability metrics that are 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 a building 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 (BIRDS) applies the sustainability measurement system to an extensive whole-building performance database NIST has compiled for this purpose. Based on the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF), the BIRDS Low-Energy Residential building database includes energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 480 000 design variations of the NZERTF for Gaithersburg, MD for study period lengths ranging from 1 year to 40 years. Focusing on a single location allows for the consideration of incremental building energy efficiency measures, both those specified in the most recent International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as well as those adopted in the NZERTF design that lead to net-zero energy performance for a one-year period of experimental operation. The sustainability performance of buildings designed to meet current energy codes can be compared to a number of alternative building designs to determine the impacts of improving building energy efficiency on overall sustainability performance. This report describes the latest version of BIRDS (v3.1) including new features, namely metrics related to indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort of occupants and indoor air quality) and an additional exterior wall finish option. In addition to the expansion of the BIRDS low-energy residential database, the BIRDS interface includes extended results graphing capabilities. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don''t have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it''s the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it''s all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it''s just a 10-page document, O.K., but if it''s 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes an hour. It''s much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don''t have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 � by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). If you like the service we provide, please leave positive review on Amazon.com.