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Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability (BIRDS) Low-Energy Residential database technical manual / Joshua Kneifel; Priya Lavappa; Eric O Rear; Anne Landfield Greig; Sangwon Suh.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Kneifel, Joshua, author.
- Series:
- NIST technical note ; 1918.
- NIST technical note ; 1918
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable architecture.
- Sustainable design (Buildings).
- Genre:
- Technical reports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrations (color).
- Place of Publication:
- Gaithersburg, MD : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2016.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Contributed 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.
- OCLC:
- 958885838
- Publisher Number:
- GOVPUB-C13-dc13461fa678e2573334cccbbf2d321d
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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