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Book Synopsis Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Alternative Residential Building Designs Using BIRDS Low-Energy Residential Database by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Alternative Residential Building Designs Using BIRDS Low-Energy Residential Database written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent release of Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) v3.0 incorporated the energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 240 000 residential building designs for a 2-story colonial house based on the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) located in Gaithersburg, MD for study period lengths ranging from 1 year to 40 years. Focusing on a single location allows for consideration of incremental building energy efficiency improvements instead of the suite of energy efficiency requirements specified in the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as was the focus of the residential database incorporated in BIRDS v2.0. Building design specifications included in the database span the five most recent IECC editions through net-zero energy performance. Additional options not included in previous versions of BIRDS are input alternatives for discount rate, home loan financing, and construction quality for a total of 8 cases. The 240 000 designs across 8 cases (sets of assumptions) and 40 study periods allows for comparisons across over 75 million records to determine the effects of improving building energy efficiency on the overall sustainability performance. The purpose of this study is to utilize similar methodology as that used in prior analysis of BIRDS databases to analyze the BIRDS low-energy residential database. Our analysis will entail making comparisons between a Maryland residential code-compliant design (based on 2015 IECC), serving as our baseline, and a series of alternative designs with varying levels of energy efficiency based on energy, economic, and environmental performance. Findings from this study will shed light on the effects of incremental improvements in residential building energy efficiency, as well as the effects of varying the investor s time horizon and other assumptions, on overall sustainability performance in terms of energy efficiency, life-cycle assessment score coupled with life-cycle cost considerations.
Author :National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology Publisher : ISBN 13 :9781983819575 Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Alternative Residential Building Designs by : National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology
Download or read book Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Alternative Residential Building Designs written by National Institute National Institute of Standards and Technology and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent release of Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) v3.0 incorporated the energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 240 000 residential building designs for a 2-story colonial house based on the NIST Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility (NZERTF) located in Gaithersburg, MD for study period lengths ranging from 1 year to 40 years. Focusing on a single location allows for consideration of incremental building energy efficiency improvements instead of the suite of energy efficiency requirements specified in the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as was the focus of the residential database incorporated in BIRDS v2.0. Building design specifications included in the database span the five most recent IECC editions through net-zero energy performance. Additional options not included in previous versions of BIRDS are input alternatives for discount rate, home loan financing, and construction quality for a total of 8 cases. The 240 000 designs across 8 cases (sets of assumptions) and 40 study periods allows for comparisons across over 75 million records to determine the effects of improving building energy efficiency on the overall sustainability performance. 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, no problem, 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 at least 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. Without positive feedback from the community, we may discontinue the service and y'all can go back to printing these books manually yourselves.
Book Synopsis BIRDS V3.1 Low-energy Residential Database Technical Manual by : Joshua D. Kneifel
Download or read book BIRDS V3.1 Low-energy Residential Database Technical Manual written by Joshua D. Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 153 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 0́−carbon footprint0́+ 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.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-energy Residential Incremental Energy Efficiency Improvements Database Technical Manual: Update by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-energy Residential Incremental Energy Efficiency Improvements Database Technical Manual: Update written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 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 Incremental Energy Efficiency Improvements Database includes energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 960 000 design variations of the NZERTF for Gaithersburg, MD for study periods ranging from 1 year to 30 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) and those implemented in the NZERTF. Buildings designed to meet current energy codes can be compared to alternative building designs to determine the impacts of improving building energy efficiency on overall sustainability performance. This report describes the latest version of BIRDS (v4.0) including new options, namely natural gas-fired space and water heater equipment.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Building Code-based Residential Database Technical Manual: Update by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Building Code-based Residential Database Technical Manual: Update written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 145 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. 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 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 new sustainability measurement system to an extensive whole building performance database NIST has compiled for this purpose. The updated BIRDS residential building database includes energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 9120 new residential buildings, covering 10 single-family dwellings (5 one-story and 5 two-story of a various of conditioned floor area) in 228 cities across all U.S. states for study period lengths ranging from 1 year to 40 years. The sustainability performance of buildings designed to meet current state energy codes can be compared to their performance when meeting four alternative building energy standard editions to determine the impact of energy efficiency on sustainability performance. The impact of the building location and the investor's time horizon on sustainability performance (economic and environmental) can also be measured.
Book Synopsis BIRDS V3.1 Tutorial for Low Energy Residential Database by : Joshua D. Kneifel
Download or read book BIRDS V3.1 Tutorial for Low Energy Residential Database written by Joshua D. Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 56 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. 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 0́−carbon footprint0́+ 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 residential building designs 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 most recent editions of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) as well as those adopted in the NZERTF design that lead to net-zero energy performance. 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. The initial version of this database was introduced in BIRDS v3.0 and has been expanded in BIRDS v3.1 to include additional metrics related to indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort of occupants and indoor air quality) and an additional exterior wall finish option. The BIRDS interface now includes additional graphing features not available in previous versions of BIRDS. This document is a tutorial to assist BIRDS users in understanding and using the BIRDS Low Energy Residential Buildings Database Web Interface, including detailed definitions for and explanation of the purpose of each input and output option.
Author :National Institute of Standards and Technology Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781496021021 Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (21 download)
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (Birds) Technical Manual and User Guide by : National Institute of Standards and Technology
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (Birds) Technical Manual and User Guide written by National Institute of Standards and Technology and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 160 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 tool 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 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 new sustainability measurement system to an extensive whole building performance database NIST has compiled for this purpose. The BIRDS database includes energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 12 540 new commercial and non low-rise residential buildings, covering 11 building prototypes in 228 cities across all U.S. states for 9 study period lengths. The sustainability performance of buildings designed to meet current state energy codes can be compared to their performance when meeting four alternative building energy standard editions to determine the impact of energy efficiency on sustainability performance. The impact of the building location and the investor s time horizon on sustainability performance can also be measured.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Commercial Database Technical Manual written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 133 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. Wholebuilding 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 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. In addition to the database developed for previous versions of BIRDS, the updated BIRDS Commercial database now includes energy, environmental, and cost measurements for 13 680 new commercial and non-low rise residential buildings, covering the 15 building prototypes based on the PNNL Commercial Prototype Building Models in 228 cities across all U.S. states for study period lengths ranging from 1 year to 40 years. The sustainability performance of buildings designed to meet current state energy codes can be compared to their performance when meeting four alternative building energy standard editions to determine the impact of energy efficiency on sustainability performance. The impact of the building location and the investor's time horizon on sustainability performance can also be measured.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Tutorial for New Low-Energy Residential Database by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Tutorial for New Low-Energy Residential Database written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 43 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. 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.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-Energy Residential Database Technical Manual by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-Energy Residential Database Technical Manual written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 149 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. Wholebuilding 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 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.
Book Synopsis Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Neutral Environment Software Tool (NEST) Technical Manual by : Joshua Kneifel
Download or read book Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Neutral Environment Software Tool (NEST) Technical Manual written by Joshua Kneifel and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 142 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 through its Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) framework. The BIRDS framework is a sustainability measurement system 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. The BIRDS framework has been leveraged to assist building architects and designers to evaluate the sustainability performance of custom building designs through the development of BIRDS NEST (Neutral Environment Software Tool), an application programming interface (API) that allows other software tools to submit building characteristics and performance information (in a standardized format) to develop sustainability performance metrics for a customized building design. The beta version of BIRDS NEST is focused on performing a life-cycle environmental impact assessment (LCIA) based on 12 impact categories for single-family residential buildings. The BIRDS NEST has been designed to interact with NREL's OpenStudio (OS), an open-source, cross-platform collection of software tools that supports whole building energy modeling using EnergyPlus. In collaboration with NREL's OS Team, an OS Measure has been developed to successfully send and receive information to and from BIRDS NEST, allowing OS users to develop LCIA estimates for OS building models without leaving the OS application. This technical manual describes BIRDS and its LCA and LCIA methodology and data, development of BIRDS NEST and the associated OS Measure, and BIRDS NEST's limitations, planned release, and the development of its future capabilities.
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Download or read book CO2 Emission based prioritization of bridge maintenance projects using neutrosophic fuzzy sets based decision making approach written by Ilgin Gokasar and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the most challenging problems for the world, which leads researchers to study on the decrease of its impact to the environment at several disciplines. One of the most adverse effects on environment can be observed in transportation area. Hence, in this paper, the impact of bridge maintenance on the environment is inquired in the bridge maintenance prioritization perspective. The aim of this paper is to rank the bridge maintenance projects using type-2 neutrosophic number (T2NN) based fuzzy WASPAS (Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment) and TOPSIS (Technique For Order Preference By Similarity To An Ideal Solution) to test five alternative bridges, where a critical environmental criterion is introduced in this model, which addresses to additional CO2 emission because of truck detours in the event of a bridge closures. The applicability of the proposed model is demonstrated in a case study in Turkey. The evaluation findings show that the ranking results are robust and the CO2 emission criterion is found to be the dominant criterion in the multicriteria decision-making model proposed in this paper.
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