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Energy Modeling: Deriving Value Beyond Certifications and Compliance

Stok

Building Energy Modeling (BEM) is often only used for green building certifications or to show compliance to building codes or standards. While most project teams have heard of energy modeling, very few fully understand its ability to support important energy related decision-making for projects.

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Stay Home Learn BIM: week 3 – Be wary of the Bully BIM! (bonus Easter Egg Hunt)

DebunkTheBIM

At its premise is the idea, that following semi-independent work done by many consultants (in model-base or otherwise) an automated procedure identifies the clashes of spatially conflicting elements and highlights them. There are no fully designed/modelled projects that can be effective clash-detected. And it doesn’t.

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8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects

BD+C

8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects 0 qpurcell Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:22 Sustainability Stantec's Brett Lambert, Principal of Architecture and Passive House Certified Consultant, uses the Northland Newton Development project to guide designers with eight tips for designing multifamily passive house projects.

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Top 25 Finalists for Ivory Innovations' Housing Affordability Prize

Pro Builder

In the Finance category, finalists include organizations focused on construction financing, shared-equity models, and renter programs that support increased savings and equity. The fund seeks to build a community of practice and replication model to assist other cities in deploying this innovative fund model in their markets.

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Homes LEEDing the Way to Sustainability and Resiliency

Pro Builder

Extensive use of low-VOC and low-formaldehyde materials throughout the home’s interior, three separate energy recovery ventilator systems with high-efficiency filters, and meticulous installation and commissioning of a 10-zone air source heat pump system helped the home earn EPA Indoor airPLUS certification. . Green Projects. Green Design.

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Planning reform should be a new Government priority

Construction Law

Various funding models have been suggested that would allow investors to recoup money during the construction and commissioning phases, which would help. So companies getting involved in large projects might not start to see significant return for their investments of time and money for 20 years; few can countenance that.

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Revit Beginners: Journal of Building Information Modeling

Revit Beginners

Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. Revit Zone. Find Consultants. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Monday, September 15, 2008. David Duarte. at 3:27 PM. Newer Post. Older Post.

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