Author: arthomson
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TEUI L.2 Heating and Cooling Degree Days
If you’re not sure what OBJECTIVE or TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Heating and Cooling Days (HDD and CDD, respectively) are an effective shorthand for defining climate-related impacts on heating and cooling loads of buildings. The idea is simple enough, but the units – a mashup of time and temperature –…
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TEUI T.3 Target vs. Actual
First of all, if you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Architects imagine buildings in great detail before they exist. They establish budgets for construction costs, and their contracts will often hold them to delivering projects within a certain percentage of these targets. The buildings are expected to perform…
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TEUI D.1 Reporting Period and Service Life
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides a Drop-Down menu to select a year range from 2015 to 2041. The purpose of this is to establish in what year annual emissions are to be calculated for, and this can function for either the ‘Utility Bill‘ method…
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OBJECTIVE TEUI3 and Occam’s Razor
Embracing Parsimony: The OBJECTIVE TEUI 3 Calculator’s Simplicity in Architectural Energy Models Occam’s Razor, the principle often attributed to the medieval philosopher William of Ockham, advocates for simplicity: where the simplest solution is usually the correct one. This philosophical approach has profound implications across various fields, from physics to economics, and architecture and energy modeling…
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TEUI S.3 Carbon Benchmarking Standard
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 refers to Carbon Benchmarking Standards in a few different ways. The first way is for Standards Compliance and guidance. You can select from the following 6 options in the S.3 Drop Down: Why would the Building Code reference for Denmark…
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TEUI S.1 Reference Standards
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides 15 different preset Reference Standards, 2 are from SB12 of the OBC prescriptive path tables, one is from SB10, 6 more are from NBC/NECB, one is from Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and the rest are from PHI or…