Category: Policy
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OBJECTIVE 4.012 ~ Now Available in BETA
OpenBuilding OBJECTIVE: A Free Early-Stage Energy Modelling Tool That Actually Works Canada wastes $44.6 billion annually** on building energy inefficiency—more per capita than any country on Earth. Despite decades of voluntary standards, expensive certifications, and complex modelling software, the performance gap between modelled and actual building energy use can vary by an incredibly wide margin. …
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TEUI G.4.1 Net Usable Gains
First of all, if you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! If there is one, single thing that differentiates Passive House Energy Modelling from most other methods, including Hourly, Dynamic modellers, it is probably what is called the Net Usable Gains Calculation. Just semantically, think of a building as…
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TEUI T.10 Thermal Energy Demand Intensity (TEDI)
Flashes of insight aren’t that common. And when they do occur it’s easy to miss them, dismissing our intuition over what may be well-maintained orthodoxies, even if incorrect. But we can’t doubt our hunches when they unrelentingly demand our sustained attention. Such was the case while poring over about 3,000 lines of javascript code in…
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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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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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TEDI and Ventilation, the tail that wags the dog
I will keep this post as short as possible because it is complex, and because it is complex I’ve made a calculator. Without discussing the dynamic interplay of 8 key variables pertaining to TEDI and Ventilation, it is impossible to separate facts from opinions. Here’s how I see it: An idling car or truck with…