Brian Murphy, Founder of Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE) created the original components of GBC and he has continued to merge them, add to it, update it and expand its capability.
What it means to declarers
- Architects Declare, Construction Declare, Education Declare, Structural Engineers Declare, Interior Design Declare
- Engage robustly with Climate Emergency.
- Engages with RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.
- Enables Architectural competition entries to be supported by competent performance and carbon data.
- Enables engagement with Architects Climate Action Network campaigns.
- Preempts Regulatory Changes (Building Regulations Approved Document BRAD Z)
- Plans to address absent solutions in Regulations (BRAD O)
- Enables engagement with UK Government Net Carbon Ambitions
- Enables engagement with National Infrastructure Strategy
Business opportunities
- Multi-functional calculator that addresses many issues to support designers
- Brings together many calculations in one place, all interlinked so one change filters throughout instantly
- Energy Performance, Carbon Impacts and Cost analysis tool all in one place
- An opportunity to do real Value Engineering not cost cutting in disguise
- E.g. Analyse the result of spending more money on more insulation and/or more expensive glazing choices
- Embodied Carbon, Sequestered Carbon, Carbon-In-Use calculations
- for reporting and competition entries
- V1 for new build and V2 addresses refurbishment in a comprehensive way
- Not replacing but adding to PHPP, SAP, SBEM, IES, calculations
- All the parts are in place, correctly formatted, linked to correct data sources, so no more searching your ‘college-knowledge’
- Does what you want, but thought that you
- could never do yourself
- had to pay an arm and a leg for
- Enables
- Broader service offering to clients
- Less reliance on external consultants
- More in-house skills
- Saves you time, gives you more
Green Building Calculator (GBC)
- Green Building Calculator GBC Version 1 provided information regarding whole building Energy Consumption, Carbon in use, Cost of building and Cost of heating a building.
- It is an impartial, easy to use, value for money product that can make a real difference to the world around us.
- GBC V2 includes carbon footprint calculator for homes and non-domestic buildings
It is aimed at architects and interior designers but useful for all designer disciplines, self builders and constructors. - Different building shapes, methods of construction, materials choices and resultant energy demand and consumption can be compared easily.
- With XR Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg’s behaviour change campaign, Architects Declare and Architects Climate Action Network, as well as Government bodies declaring and becoming involved in environmental design in a bigger way, architects and other professionals now have a quick way of creating greener buildings or easing their way into the ‘New Normal’.
- Moreover, they will understand why 50mm of stone wool insulation, shown in the ageing textbooks, is no longer enough and sometimes has the wrong properties for the application.
- Users will be able to do their own U value calculation independently of manufacturers or suppliers who will do them for free, if using their products.
