GRC @ Futurebuild 2023 Exhibition

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Firstplanit +GRC at Futurebuild 2023 — Firstplanit +GRC Futurebuild 2023 Exhibition

GRC @ Futurebuild 2023 Event

Tuesday 7th – Thursday 9th March 2023

Exhibition stand: Firstplanit + GBC Stand: M60

Presentation: at Edge, Stand: L50, Thursday 12:15 (see video below)

Green Retrofit Calculator version 1 launch

Brian Murphy, aka BrianSpecMan, founder of GreenSpec and now creator of Green Building Encyclopaedia, demonstrated the key features of this emerging design and decision tool, Green Building Calculator Version 2 [GBC V2] at Futurebuild 2022.

One year later he brings Green Retrofit Calculator Version 1 [GRC V1].

Green Retrofit Calculator GRC Poster showing: Solution Providers (pink), Products and their datasets (dark blue), House types and their properties (orange), Risk assessment (Yellow), Target U values, EE EC SC (pale blue), Users and tenderers (pink), Calculated U values, EE EC SC (dark green); Summary Sheets all results in one place (pale green).

GRC Version 1 provides information regarding:

English & Scottish House Condition Survey: >20 Existing house types to choose from
Building dimensions and glazing geometry
Occupancy and lifestyle setting temperatures
Target U values: Regulations v Design v Campaign v WUFI Standards
>150 different conductivity and radiation insulation materials, formats, densities
Elemental Assembly R & U value calculator
Choose or add materials or products
Existing building, previous interventions and 2 option scenarios
Site location, exposure conditions, material choices and risk assessment
Whole building energy consumption
Elemental heat loss & percentages
Fuel choice
Carbon in use
embodied energy
embodied carbon
sequestered carbon
its built-in bill of quantities enables:
cost planning
cost of building
cost of running a building
proper value engineering opportunities to keep and add good things in, not just cost cutting good stuff out

GRC V1 has been created for clients, students, architects, surveyors, developers, contractors and property managers alike.

Summary Sheet bring all the results together in one place

Well informed decisions can be made
Any change in specification generates instantaneous updated throughout
Different scenarios can be considered

Green Retrofit Calculator GRC Summary Sheet: Upper V1 010323 showing: Rows left: Building Elements, U values, Temperature differences, Watts of energy, Areas, % Area v % heat loss; Top right Scenarios: Existing+previous interventions, Proposal 1, Proposal 2 Lower left: Total heat loss, In use energy, In use carbon dioxide, Hours of use, years of service, In-use running costs, embodied energy, embodied carbon, sequestered carbon, total carbon (for each element of the building in columns) Lower right: results of the same scenarios above.

GRC future version are planned, adding more:

datasets,
equations
calculators including:

payback periods,
carbon back periods,
waste minimisation by design
waste cost
embodied energy and carbon in waste
recycled content
plastics and cement avoidance
condensation analysis
decrement delay calculations (avoiding overheating)
Specification output

It’s an impartial, easy to use, value for money product that can result in our buildings having a positive environmental impact, rather than contributing to terminating our planet for comfortable human occupation!

Brian will show screenshots of the Calculator, you can ask as many questions as you like, interrogate and understand the inner workings of GRC V1.

There will be a presentation on the Edge stand L50 Thursday 12:15 (see video below)

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