TY - GEN
T1 - Creating a building carbon emission performance standard
AU - Bryan, Harvey
AU - Grimm, Maria
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Carbon emission awareness is on the rise and there is a lack of tools and references available to help designers meet important carbon emission reduction benchmarks. This paper presents a building carbon emission performance standard and outlines the methodology that was used in its creation. This standard can be used to determine carbon benchmarks emission budgets in a specific climate zone for several building types. This standard offers an easy way to determine carbon without the need to run a detailed of a computer simulation model. Not only does this standard fall in line with recent carbon initiatives it is also a performance-based approach, something that is proving to be more effective than the traditional prescriptive-based approach to standards. This standard would help an individual aim for an improved carbon use intensity in new buildings and accurately gauge an existing building's carbon emissions.
AB - Carbon emission awareness is on the rise and there is a lack of tools and references available to help designers meet important carbon emission reduction benchmarks. This paper presents a building carbon emission performance standard and outlines the methodology that was used in its creation. This standard can be used to determine carbon benchmarks emission budgets in a specific climate zone for several building types. This standard offers an easy way to determine carbon without the need to run a detailed of a computer simulation model. Not only does this standard fall in line with recent carbon initiatives it is also a performance-based approach, something that is proving to be more effective than the traditional prescriptive-based approach to standards. This standard would help an individual aim for an improved carbon use intensity in new buildings and accurately gauge an existing building's carbon emissions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867267311
SN - 9781615673636
T3 - 38th ASES National Solar Conference 2009, SOLAR 2009
SP - 1656
EP - 1685
BT - 38th ASES National Solar Conference 2009, SOLAR 2009
T2 - 38th ASES National Solar Conference 2009, SOLAR 2009
Y2 - 11 May 2009 through 16 May 2009
ER -