Net - Zero Energy Building Amid growing concerns about rising energy prices, energy independence, and the impact of climate change, statistics show buildings to be the primary energy consumer in the U.S. This fact underscores the importance of targeting building energy use as a key to decreasing the...
LEED: Build Resilience to Climate Change More frequent periods of drought and wildfires, 100-year flood events happening every few years, and intense heat and humidity are increasingly affecting daily life. Those of us in the green building industry know that designing sustainable buildings has neve...
Sustainable Construction Do you know? Unsustainable construction methods are a major contributor to this problem because they consume a lot of energy and emit enormous amounts of waste. Therefore, shifting to sustainable construction methods is an excellent way to minimize greenhouse gas emissions f...
Energy Modeling and Optimization Energy modelling is an effective computer-based tool that is used to review various design strategies for a building. The model provides a prediction of possible energy savings of a proposed building against that of a baseline building. It is a valuable tool within t...
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) In recent years, IEQ has emerged as an area of focus, in part because of its place in the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED green building rating system. Not only does indoor environmental quality take into account VOCs and other pollutants, it considers how the e...