Tag: embodiedcarbon
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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 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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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…
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The Energy Model vs The Real World
After 2 years of living in our cold-climate Passive House, how is its real performance measuring up to the energy model used during the building’s design phase? An energy model is a digital replica of a building that simulates heat gains and losses based on the building’s characteristics and climate. It allows us to optimize…
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Embodied Carbon, I do not love you.
This is a forest ecosystem struggling for equilibrium, growth, and intelligence. It was clearcut just 30 years ago, and I have been observing and learning from this place for the past decade.