Form Follows Performance

Environmental product declarations (EPDs) Stakeholders within the building design and construction community are increasingly being asked to include information in their decision-making processes that take into consideration potential environmental impacts. These stakeholders and interested parties expect unbiased product information that is consistent with current best practices and based on objective scientific analysis. In the future, building product purchasing decisions willMore >

Vertical farms grow more food but use much more energy, so let's consider other kinds of urban agriculture.

Engineering Climate Dataset web site is a gateway to information on matters such as past weather, engineering climate data in Canada.

Provides solar and meteorological data sets from NASA research for support of renewable energy, building energy efficiency and agricultural needs.

AECB Energy software Add-on for the Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP) for Embodied CO2, Costs and building the model

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Please be aware of differences in the presented data due to your location! All data used for the current version of the "material pyramid" is available data from EPDs assumed valid in Northern Europe and/or Scandinavia. There can be relevant differences to the data that is valid at your location.

Data-Driven Design and Construction book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. “In this comprehensive book, Professor Randy Deutsch h...

Design Energy Simulation for Architects book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Energy modeling calculations for urban, complex bu...

This section provides an overview and links to how Thermal Comfort Calculations in the Sefaira web application including: What is Thermal Comfort When Thermal Comfort is important How we process ...

These articles describe the background assumptions used in assembling the different HVAC system setups within the product. Sefaira is...

As developers of Tally, KieranTimberlake users have unique ways of streamlining Tally workflows to make the integration of LCA with Revit as easy as possible. In this webinar we will share our favorite tricks with Tally, some even going beyond LCA specific applications by demonstrating how Tally can be a helpful tool for quality assuring a Revit model. This webinar is perfect for streamlining how new users work in Tally and enabling experienced users to get the most out of the software.

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This video shows how to create quick STUDY MODELS to analyse the performance implications of design ideas. This can be the quickest way to get answers to your questions in Sefaira. It gives you full understanding of the model and matches the level of other inputs that you will enter.

Humans emit more than 250 billion tonnes of chemical substances a year, in a toxic avalanche that is harming people and life everywhere on the planet.