Green Building Encyclopaedia has launched Green Building Calculator via a new website: https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk The product provides information regarding Energy Consumption, Carbon in use, Cost of building and Cost of running a building. Different building shapes, methods of construction, materials choices and resultant energy demand and consumption can be compared. The information provided is impartial, so that the right choices can be made.
There are ambitious plans to continue development and 15 versions are scheduled including: retrofit at individual and community level, condensation check, overheating calculator, embodied energy, embodied and sequestered carbon, whole building life cycle assessment, plastic avoidance, recycled content, reclaim and reuse, waste cost.
Users will understand why 50mm of stone wool insulation, shown in the ageing textbooks, is no longer enough and sometimes has the wrong properties for the application. They will be able to do their own U value calculation independently of manufacturers or suppliers who will do them for free, without obligation.
Green Building Calculator can be used by clients, to do their own project analysis; self-builders, to check that quotes with specifications meet building targets, before they buy; building designers i.e. architects, technicians and technologists, CAD users, surveyors, M&E engineers, D&B constructors, small builders; design students; EPC, BREEAM, SAP, SBEM assessors, home energy advisors, energy consultants, overheating assessors, building performance advisors and carbon reduction consultants; the developer’s team; constructors and contractors; facilities and property managers; and University lecturers.
Green Building Calculator is available for purchase and download via https://greenbuildingcalculator.uk
Brian Murphy commented: “With XR Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg’s behaviour change campaign, Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network, as well as Government bodies declaring and becoming involved in environmental design in a bigger way, architects and other professionals now have a quick way of creating greener buildings or easing their way into the New Normal.”
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