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September 20, 2007 – Vol. 12 No.26 Green Building Studio V3.0 Carbon Neutral Building Design Tool Beta Release. The new release updates Green Building Studio web service with new capabilities for assessing carbon neutrality potential. New features with the beta version include: -- Carbon Neutral Building Check - Automatically estimates the feasibility for each building to achieve carbon neutral status using local grid emission data. -- US EPA ENERGY STAR Score - Computing each building's US EPA ENERGY STAR score or Architecture 2030's targets. -- Photovoltaic & Wind Energy - Automatically analyzes the PV and wind energy potential for the building. Summarizes PV potential for every surface on building. -- Water Use Analysis - Estimates the water needs, savings associated with efficiency measures, rain capture potential, and LEED credits for the building. -- Daylighting with Energy Savings - Automatically determines LEED Glaze factor for each room with lighting control energy savings. -- Natural Ventilation Potential - Automatically determines if the building location and loads are well-suited for naturally ventilating the building. -- Local Weather Data - Providing access to over 60,000 weather locations, ensuring the design team uses local hourly weather data within 14km of your building rather than selecting from the typical 230 airport locations. -- Corporate Accounts - Providing firm-wide management of users, building designs, building templates, and review of corporate wide CO2 emission, energy and water use analyses. Leverage key staff on every project no matter which office they are in. Access to the beta program is free for existing and potential customers and will run until later this fall when the full release is expected. Beta participants will be asked to provide product feedback to the GBS team. Architects and design teams interested in the beta program can register at the company website. (9/20/07)
Links: Green Building Studio http://www.greenbuildingstudio.com See a building designed to be carbon neutral in five minutes using Green Building Studio
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