Form Follows Performance

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New green building: The Calwer Passage is centrally located at the geographical center of the state capital Stuttgart.

Current Weather Conditions, Weather Forecasts, Weather History and Customized Weather Maps for Canada

Our Degree Day Calculator is the easiest and most reliable way to calculate Heating and Cooling Degree Days. No more copy/pasting Excel data, no complicated formulas - just a single click for your specific location. Being used by architects, energy, real estate and factory managers around the world, it's safe to say that it is indeed one of the best tools available.

Carrot City is a research initiative that explores how design can enable the production of food in cities. You will find a comprehensive repository of the Carrot City initiative and is intended as a research tool for anyone who is interested in the links between design and food in today's cities.

Architekturfakultät der Technischen Universität Graz (ed.) Compiled by: Tom Kaden

Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.

Ramboll’s carbon assessment database, CO2mpare, allows industry and governments to explore and compare data for carbon emissions across more than 200 building carbon assessments.

National guidelines for whole-building life cycle assessment

Your interface to the Sun: See the sunpath over your house. Visualize and analyze solar, architectural & real estate projects on our interactive 3D map.

Every mountain, building and tree shadow in the world simulated for any date and time

It is hot here and probably where you are. We’re all looking for ways to keep our indoors comfortable. Although the AC is tempting, it is also expensive and tough on the environment and our i…

These days, we provide thermal comfort in winter by heating the entire air volume in a room or building, an approach that consumes a lot of fossil fuels. In this series of articles, LOW←TECH MAGAZINE focuses on our forebear’s concept of heating, which was more localized. They used radiant heat sources that warmed only certain parts of a room, creating micro-climates of comfort, and they used personal heating sources that warmed specific body parts. It would make a lot of sense to restore this old way of warming, especially since newer technology has made it much more practical, safe, and efficient. By placing heating technology in a historical context, LOW←TECH MAGAZINE challenges the high-tech approach to sustainability and highlights the possibilities of alternative solutions. Contents table: Restoring the Old Way of Warming: Heating People, not Spaces Insulation: First the Body, then the Home The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle Energy Labels Oblige Frugal Homeowners to Make Unsustainable Investments How to Keep Warm in a Cool House Sunbathing in the Living Room: Tile Stoves and Other Radiant Heating Systems Heat Storage Hypocausts: Air Heating in the Middle Ages The Revenge of the Circulating Fan

This book is to further the debate on new sustainability thinking in the built environment, by bringing together a selection of short contributions from thought leaders in the UK and the rest of the world (USA, China, India, Australia, NZ, Indonesia) with an overarching narrative from the author. Although progress in sustainable solutions has been made over the past decade, the trend is still one of a woefully wasteful construction industry. This book aims to show that being ‘less bad’

The size of a home's windows impacts the building's energy efficiency, utilities costs, and carbon output--so smaller is better.

Buildings account for over one-third of global emissions and energy use. Meeting climate pledges will require achieving high operational energy effici…

A collaborative project designed to provide information about marine biodiversity and human activity in BC's marine waters.

This quick video-tutorial shows how to painlessly import elevation data from grid format (.tiff, .asc, .hgt etc.) to CAD software, such as Rhino and Revit. W...

This video demonstrates how to generate a digital surface model (DSM) from a city using a point cloud (LAS) file. First you see how to configure the LASTools...

WUFI Passive is the industry standard for assessing passive building. The following tutorials were created to guide users to successfully modeling buildings for project certification.

A Carbon Tool (ACT) is an open source web application that enables users to estimate embodied carbon equivalent (LCA) content from Building Information Models (BIM) - using Speckle to solve the challenge of data interoperability in the AEC industry. It is designed to provide quick and efficient feedback during the design process to enable users to identify carbon hotspots and reduce the impact their design has on the built environment.

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world