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  • GBC Solution Providers (Collaborate) C#1849

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    GBC Solution Providers

    Green Building Calculator & Green Retrofit Calculator both need product data and cost data to be autonomous and proactively provide data for users to choose from to populate calculations.

    Solution providers include: manufacturers, remanufacturers, suppliers, resuppliers, installers and applicators

    Manufacturers

    can provide any recent 3rd party independently verified information:

    • Product Identification, references, names
    • Accessories Identification, references, names
    • Systems Identification, references, names
    • Physical data
    • Technical data
    • Test evidence or assessments
    • Accreditations
    • Accolades awards
    • Endorsements
    • Green, Health, Technical or Social Labels
    • Chain of custody evidence
    • Life Cycle Assessment & Environmental Product Declaration (Peer reviewed and published)
    • Life Cycle Costings
    • Carbon Data
    • Building Information Management BIM Files

    can provide their own information:

    • Manufacturer’s recommended prices
    • Recipe or specifiable mixes
    • Specification templates
    • Materials Passport template
    • Method Statement template
    • Facilities Management maintenance specification
    • End of life options
    • Technical & Promotional literature
    • Contact details: manufacturer and representatives
    • Distribution Suppliers Lists
    • Approved or trained installers or applicator lists
    • Website address
    • Direct or via supply chain partners
    • Delivery package quantities
    • Capacity of delivery vehicles

    Suppliers

    • Can also provide any of the items on manufacturer’s list above
    • Contact details
    • Stock levels and restocking time periods
    • Special order time periods
    • Rates for products, accessories, systems
    • Delivery pallet product volumes,
    • Unsplit package sizes, quantities
    • Delivery prices for: 1m2, 10m2, 100m2, 1,000m2, 10,000m2
    • Delivery prices for: 1m3, 10m3, 100m3, 1,000m3, 10,000m3
    • Prices for: Unsplit package sizes
    • Prices for deliveries
    • Capacity of delivery vehicles
    • Approved or trained Installers or applicators lists
    • Branch addresses

    Approved or trained Installers & Applicators

    • List of manufacturers and product or systems approved or trained to install or apply
    • Address location(s) for ‘local applications’
    • Geographical areas economically served
    • Supply, Supply and Install or Install rates:
    • Prices for: 1m2, 10m2, 100m2, 1,000m2, 10,000m2
    • Prices for: 1m3, 10m3, 100m3, 1,000m3, 10,000m3
    • Prices for: Unsplit package sizes
    • Installation rates: m2/day or m3/day with current work force or teams
    • Transport impacts: vehicle emissions rates

    Collecting data

    • In order to feed GBC calculators we collect data in advance and include them:
      • Green Building Product Data Collection
      • Green Building Price Book
      • Green Building Readymade Elemental Assemblies
      • Supporting letters
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    Using collected data

    • We are collecting data for a number of purposes
    • We create look-up-table to be interrogated by and feed data into cells of:
      • Green Building Calculator
      • Green Retrofit Calculator
    • Firstplanit Platform
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    Exporting data

    • The outputs of GBC calculators will include:
      • U values
      • In use energy
      • In use carbon
      • Embodied Energy
      • Embodied Carbon (Sequestered and total carbon)
    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; Scenarios: Existing+previous interventions, Proposal 1, Proposal 2
    Elemental U Values, Areas, Temperature differences, Energy Demands & %s & Scenarios
    Green Retrofit Calculator (GRC) 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) Right: results of Scenarios: Existing+previous interventions, Proposal 1, Proposal 2

    Elemental demands, Heat loss, In use energy, carbon and costs, Embodied energy to Sequestered carbon

    • Others to follow:
      • Green Building Robust Specification
      • Green Building Materials Passport
      • Green Building Method Statement
      • Green Building FM Maintenance Specification
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  • GBC News

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  • GBC Carbon Crunching Chat (Newsletter) C#819

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    Green Building Calculator launches Version 2 at Futurebuild 2022

    Hello current and future Carbon-Counters

    • GBC V2 is MS Excel-based, open-book, a multi-functional design and decision tool and calculator,
    • It adds whole building embodied energy, embodied carbon, sequestered carbon and costs to the existing in-use energy, carbon and costs of GBC V1. 
    • GBC V2 calculates Form Factor to help set U value targets, it engages user’s choice of regulated, design standards, or campaign targets, including:
    • UK or any national regulations; AECB, CL, CLR, PH, EnerPHit; LETI, ACAN, RIBA, TfL, etc.
    • GBC V2’s elemental assemblies allow choice of components, materials or products; checks, confirms U values meet targets or warns if not. 
    • Summary sheet emphasises which elements have disproportionate heat losses to enable review of specification choices.
    • GBC V2 includes a bill of quantities to allow cost planning, quotation collating, tendering;
    • with cost and carbon data, intelligent value engineering is possible.

    BrianSpecMan@icloud.com

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    Hello Solution Providers

    • The launch of GBC Version 2 initiates the need for two fundamentally important datasets:
    • Green Building Product Data Collection (GBPDC):
      • It includes ‘Golden-thread CCPI quality’ product properties and performance, with embodied energy, embodied carbon, sequestered carbon and Environmental Product Declaration data.
    • Green Building Price Book (GBPB):
      • Products, Accessories, Labour and Plant rates
    • GBC V2 includes drop down lists of appropriate products to choose from, users select your company and products by name, it then interrogates this data to populate the calculator’s cells from look up tables and automatically calculates many impacts.
    • GBC V2 includes a bill of quantities to interrogate GBPB to allow competent cost planning & tendering
      • With cost, performance and impact data linked dynamically, all in one place, intelligent value engineering is possible and substitution avoided.

    BrianSpecMan@icloud.com

    If you have ‘Golden-thread CCPI quality’ data to share GBC are interested

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