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• File Name: GBC CPD Green Building Calculator A00 BRM 300612 PDF Show
• File Type: PDF Show (to view, avoid printing 112 pages A4 full colour)
• File Size: 7 mb
• Number of Pages/Slides: 112
• Scope: Green Building Calculator, Version 1 Scope, Worksheets & Future Development, Development Versions 2-15 Scopes
• Created for: GBC, GBE Websites & GBL Webinars
• Presented to: LinkedIn, GBE website, GBC Websites
• Author: BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy ONC HNC Construction BSc Dip Arch (Hons+Dist)
• © GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS BRM 2020
• Created: 30/06/2020
• Revision: A00
• Updated: N/A
• CI/SfB: (I) Calculators
• Uniclass 1 1997: Q51
• Tags: GBC, GBE, GBL, Green Building Calculator, Green Building Encyclopaedia, Green Building Learning, Whole Building Calculator,
• ProductSets: Methods of Construction, Materials, Building Elements,
• UserGroups: Students, Architects, Assistants, Technicians, Structural Engineers, M&E Engineers, Constructors, Energy and Carbon Consultants and Advisors, Constructors

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• Green Building Calculator
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• Mahatma Gandhi
• © NGS GBE GBC 2017-2020 BrianSpecMan
• Video Introduction
• This Presentation on GBE:
• Find this file on GBE website at:
• https://GreenBuildingEncyclopaedia.uk/?p=_______

–Handout/print/read: PDF file

–Show: PDF file

–Shop: PPTX file

–Video show: PPTS file

–Zoom Recording on YouTube

• GBE Whole Building Calculators
• Previous GBE Green Building Encyclopaedia

–Whole Building Calculators: Embodied, Sequestered carbon and CO2 in use

• Created for Post graduate Architectural students 2017

–Waste Cost® lite: created from SWMP workshops

–Psi values: created for a manufacturer

–Elemental calculator: for a student

• GBE Green Building Calculator

–Bring them all together in one place one file

–440 hours to assemble so far

–https://GreenBuildingCalculator.uk

–10th June 2020 Version 1.0.0. Launched

–15 versions planned: 15 months of development

• Green Building Calculator
• Executive Summary
• GBC Green Building Calculator
• Scope: V1.0.0.
• Building Size:

–Number of buildings and floors, heights, lengths, areas, volumes

• Temperatures: inside, outside and ground
• Hours in use: per day (temperatures maintained period)
• Room by Room heat loss calculator: size radiators UFH or Boiler
• Form Factor: to set higher targets where necessary
• Regulations v Design standards:

–U value target Selection:

–Part L, LETI, Passivhaus, EnerPHit, AECB: CL or CLR or others

• Winter Thermal Insulation Material Choices

–K values v U values = Thicknesses of different materials (50 mm is not enough)

• Assemble elements and all their components,

–replace components with generic materials or products

–Get U values, R values, meet targets or not, review thicknesses or materials

–Energy Consumption, element by element %, add fuel choice > CO2 in use

–Bill of Materials, Quantities, Labour, Products, Costs

–Cost planning by the designer for the client investment not cost cutting

• Future Development Versions
• V2 Retrofit, Terraces, Community, Services
• V3 Decrement Delay, Form Factor
• V4 Building Section Coding, Competent Application, 892 ready made elements, Bespoke Assemblies, Specification Generator
• V5 Non-Domestic, Retrofit and Newbuild more refinement
• V6 Embodied Energy, Carbon and Sequestered carbon; Non-external envelope elements
• V7 Condensation Check, Thermal Bridge, Secondary Element Calculator, Thermal mass calculator
• V8 LCA Calculator
• V9 Landscape
• V10 Civils and Infrastructure
• V11 Waste Calculator
• V12 Plastic free v Recycled Plastic
• V13 Interiors
• V14 Reclaim or Self-build
• V15 BIM
• GBE Green Building Calculator
• 2020-2021 Future Development:
• 15 Versions 15 months development
• Users to guide GBC on order of priority
• User Survey
• Green Building Calculator Website
• Download the file
• 
  Green Building Calculator
  
  V1.0.0. In Detail
• Welcome
• About
• Instructions
• Project Revisions
• Whole Building
• Users add for the whole building:

–sizes

–hours of operation

–design temperatures, inside and out

• It works out areas and volumes,
• Whole Building
• Future development:
  Hours of operation
• Hours per day
• Days per week
• Weeks per year
• Heating / Cooling season duration
• Hours per year for total energy consumption and carbon per year
• Schedule of accommodation:
• Be more specific about: each room
• Room sizes
• Room temperatures
• Hours of operation
• Schedule of Accommodation
• Room by Room
• Room by room heat loss calculator
• Includes all surrounding surfaces, doors and windows
• to determine radiator or under floor heating requirements
• Or help reduce demand to match a boiler size
• Room By Room Heat Losses
• Room By Room Heat Losses
• Room By Room Heat Losses
• Form Factor:
• A quick analysis of the building form factor
• Is it cubic, linear, lumpy or have wings,
• or is it terrace or multi-storey
• Sets target U values to engage with
• Which go beyond regulations to make a low energy consumption building
• Form Factor
• Future development:
  Form factor
• Correlation between form factor and insulation thicknesses
• To adjust for dormers, bay windows, porches, conservatories, oriel windows, colonnades, etc.
• Form Factor (Development)
• Building Elements
  Sizes and Areas:
• List of 29 building elements and 12 secondary-elements and their areas
• User identifies which are included in their project design
• Add any of their respective dimensions and areas missing from the schedule of accommodation
• Building Elements
• Building Element Areas
• Multiple Size Building Element Areas
• Building Element Areas
• Multiple Secondary Element Sizes:
• To accommodate a multitude of secondary element sizes an additional schedule is included
• Building Elements Multiples
• U Values Etc.:
• Comparisons between National Building Regulations (E, W, S, NI and others), Energy Standards, FEES, AECB CarbonLite, Passivhaus, EnerPHit, EAMs, etc.
• Including: U values, Airtightness, Form factors, Primary Energy, etc.
• Allowing users to choose and apply chosen set of targets to projects.
• U values Etc. Energy Targets
• Many Energy Regulations and Design Standards comparedNone address Overheating calculations
• Future Development:
  Capture National U values
• Insulation: Material k values
  to U Value Thicknesses
• Lists of insulation materials organised by material groups
• with best, average and worst k values
• Applying the chosen U values, this provides an instant comparison of materials and thicknesses
• Insulation Thicknesses
  k values
• Materials > k values >
  U values > Thicknesses
• Future Development:
• More materials
• More densities
• More k values
• Specific heat capacity
• Future Development Insulation: Materials to Decrement Delay
• Includes the first stages of development of the Decrement Delay calculator
• Decrement Delay
  Insulation Thickness (Dev)
• Legend & Terms:
• Not a functioning part of the calculator
• Legend of cell colour codes, cell fills and Schedule of terms and insulation materials to help understanding
• Future development: Link to jargon Busters
• Legend
• Elements: Assemblies of Components & U or R value
• Detailed descriptions of 24 of 29 potential elements and 12 secondary-elements making up the external envelop of a building
• Allows the user to choose elements and assemble them by choosing their combination of functional components and then choosing the materials for each component.
• Where possible a default size is added
• Where necessary the user adds insulation and other component thicknesses.
• Using each materials k values and set resistances it calculates all of the R and U values automatically
• 24 Elements U or R value
  12 secondary element U/R values
  Insulation Costs
• Insulation and Windows Costs: Superseded by BoM?
• Costs of insulation and windows are added here
• to help persuade architects and clients to spend money
• on insulation and higher performance windows and glazing
• Future Development:
  Elements
• 5 external envelope elements to be added
• Non external elements to be added for EE EC SC and LCA calculations
• Services systems to be added
• Furniture & stairs
• Elements: Bill of Materials Quantities Costs
• To allow Architects to cost plan their projects
• Bill of materials, quantities, labour and costs is added based on building fabric only so far.
• User add their own researched prices
• Recent tenders for labour rates
• Bill of Materials Quantities Costs
• BoM Q L Costs
• Future Development:
  Bill of materials
• To be added:
• Non-envelope items,
• Services
• National Building Price book datasets?

–But they are part of the race to the bottom

• Resistances:
• Is an information resource for default surface and cavity resistivity’s;
• ‘Element’ obtains values from here
• Resistances
• Conductivities:
• Is an information resource for materials and their properties for use in Components of ‘Elements’
• The user can copy information manually into Elements
• Future Development: Conductivities
• Automated cell population to be implemented
• Its is to be developed as a look up table to automatically populate Component of ‘Elements’
• Conductivities of Materials
• Products:
• Lists of manufacturers
• Products
• Dimensions
• Characteristics
• Applications
• Conductivity of Products
• Future Development: Products
• intending to develop into a Look Up Table to populate ‘Elements: Components’
• Only permit them to be used as intended by manufacturer
• Users can still override but consciously
• Insulation Cost Thickness:
  Redundent
• Is an information resource for materials, their properties and costs for use in Components of ‘Elements’
• The user can obtain their own information or copy information manually
• Its is being developed as a look up table to automatically populate Component of ‘Elements’
• Secondary Elements:
  Windows doors rooflights
• Is an information resource
• for secondary elements
• their properties for use in Components of ‘Elements’
• The user can obtain their own or copy information manually
• Secondary Elements
• Future development:
  Secondary Elements
• Look up table to automatically populate Component of ‘Elements’
• Secondary Element calculator

–Ug, Uf, Uw, Psi glazing bar, Psi perimeter

• Element Summery:
• Summarises 24 Elements and 12 Secondary Elements calculated U values,
• Compares with targeted U values,
• highlighting any shortfalls
• Element Summary
• Future Development: Element Summary
• 5 More elements to be added
• Other parts to be added Porch, Sun space, Externsion, Dormer
• UToWattsToCO2:
• Assembles elemental areas and U values to calculates energy losses from

–each element

–total secondary elements

–total losses

–each element losses as a % of the whole

• comparisons can be made by the user

–gives a chance to reconsider earlier decisions

• Particularly useful is the comparison of basement, walls, roofs, floors and all glazing
• Choose fuel source to get CO2 readout
• U value to Watts to CO2 In Use
• FuelCarbonFactor:
• Is an information resource
• developed as a look up table
• used by ‘UToWattsToCO2’
• Fuel Carbon Factor
• Future Development:
  Fuel carbon factor
• Current figures from BRegs
• Needs up to date factors
• From Defra
• Latest data: EU wide 2020
• Can add national datasets to choose from
• Carbon in Mains Electricity EU
• Cost Per m2:
• Not part of the calculator
• This is a converter:
• If the information provided by Manufacturers/Suppliers is not in £/m2
• This will help with converting the information provided to the required format
• Manually or Copy and Paste results into calculator
• Cost per m2
• Drop Down List:
• Not part of the calculator
• Used to populate cells with readymade answers to avoid typing, avoid errors and limit choices
• Lists can be added to by user, as long as the last two cells remain at bottom of sets
• Drop Down List
• Future Development:
  Drop Down Lists
• When ensuring products are used in correct applications
• These lists will expand exponentially
• Supplier Request Form:
• Used to request information on products from manufacturers or suppliers
• Will be available to download
• Supplier Request Form
• Future Development:
  Supplier Request form
• Some refinements to capture all necessary for:
• EE, EC, SC,
• LCA
• Competent Application
• User Feedback Form:
• Users can let us know of any problems and potential improvements
• Version Upgrades as rewards
• User feed back form
• User Survey:
• Invites Users to review and priorities development sequence and suggest desirable functionality
• User Survey
• Elements: U value calculator
• Capture National U values
• Support
• Income for development
• 
  Green Building Calculator
  
  V2 to V15
• Version 2
• Carbon in use/annum

–Hours of use per day

–Days/week days/year

• Domestic Retrofit:

–One off and community

• Bill of materials; add

–Building Labour Rates

–Materials Rates

–Services Scope and quantities

–Services Rates

–Services Labour Rates

–Services Costs

• Versions 3
• Decrement Delay Calculator

–to avoid summer overheating

• Condensation check:

–static to BS 5250

• GBE Product Datasets
• GBE Form Factor Calculator

–Other Methods

–Thicknesses of insulation to meet U values

• Decrement Delay
  GBE Green Building Calculator
• Build Light, Insulate Right, Solar Tight
• Or why buildings overheat
• © 2015-2019
• Radiant verses Conductive heat flows
• Insulation needs to resist both or overheating occurs
• Radiant v Conductive
• Thermal Insulation:
• Once radiant heat gets in it warms the space and the warmth cannot get out through conductivity insulation
• Version 4
• Building Section Coding

–Elements Sub-elements and Junctions

• Material Appropriateness to Application
• Building Elemental Assembly Code Numbers

–Outer face-Core-Inner face

–CAWS-CI/SfB-CAWS-Instance

–892 Readymade Competent Elemental Assemblies

–Bespoke collection and incorporation

• Specification Generator
• Version 5
• More specific interfaces:

–Non-Domestic Retrofit:

–Domestic new build

–Non-Domestic New build

• Versions 6
• GBE EE EC SC Calculator

–ICE database: 1.3 > 3.0

–Will provide Embodied Energy, Embodied Carbon and Sequestered Carbon data

• Bill of Materials Quantities Costs

–Non-External Envelope Components

–Landscape Assemblies

• Version 7
• Condensation Check
• Thermal Bridge Calculator
• Secondary Element Calculator

–Glazing and framing specifications

–Ug Uf & Uw and Psi perimeter and spacers

• Version 8
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Whole Building Calculator
• LCA Dataset
• Version 9
• Landscape

–(using some of GBE 862 Readymade Assemblies)

–Landscape Materials Rates

–Landscape Labour

–Landscape Costs

• Version 10
• Civils & Infrastructure

–(using GBE 862 Readymade Assemblies

• Civils & Infrastructure Rates
• Civils & Infrastructure Labour
• Civils & Infrastructure Costs
• Version 11
• Waste Calculator
• Embodied Energy and Carbon in Waste
• Embodied Energy and Carbon in Reclaim
• Sequestered Carbon in Reclaimed Timber
• Version 12
• Plastic Free V Recycled Plastic Products
• Plastics & Recycled Plastic Content Dataset
• Alternatives to Plastics Dataset
• Plastics Diverted from landfill
• Plastics Avoided
• Carbon Consumed or Avoided
• Version 13
• Interiors Fit out, Refit Furniture Dataset
• Finishes Products Dataset
• Furniture Impact calculator
• Version 14
• Self-build Interface
• Wales Technical Advisory Note 6
• One Planet Development
• Zero Carbon evidence requested
• Town & Country Planning
• Version 15
• BIM Building Information Management
• CAD Computer aided Design
• BIM App to interrogate Building Model and extracting physical and dimensional information
• BIM interrogate BOM to feed the calculator
• Energy and related design standards
• Building Regulations Approved Document L

–Will eventually meet carbon targets but not now

–Most new buildings will need to be retrofit by 2030-2050

• Energy (exceeding Building Regulations)

–AECB Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Standard

–Super E (Canadian; means to sell their softwood)

–Passivhaus (German) PHPP Software

• Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort conditions driven
• Mimimise air leakage, minimise thermal bridges
• EnerPHit (Passivhaus Retrofit)

–Minergie (Swiss)

–Carbon Lite (UK AECB)

• Passivhaus interpretation for UK climate and energy mix
• Carbon Lite Retrofit (CLR)
• Feedback
• These files are created by generalists with a big dollop of green flavour
• These files are updated from time to time
• We are not experts so from time to time these file may get out of date or may be wrong.
• If you feel that we have got it wrong please let us know so we can put it right
• © GBE 2017-2020
• Brian Murphy BSc Dip Arch (Hons+Dist)

–Architect by Training

–Specification Writer by Choice

–Environmentalist by Actions

• Greening up my act since 1999
• Founded National Green Specification 2001
• Launched www.greenspec.co.uk 2003
• Created: GBE at https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk 2015
• Launched: GBE Learning https://GBELearning.com 2020
• Green Building Calculator https://GreenBuildingCalculator.uk 2020
• E   BrianSpecMan@aol.com
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/brianspecman
• LinkedIn: BrianSpecMan
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