Green Building Design Standards When thinking about designing an environmentally-friendly building, there are a few standards that serve as a design guides that architects and engineers should follow. The following are standards commonly used in the design of sustainable buildings and building that want to achieve LEED certification. ASHRAE 90.1 The ASHRAE 90.1 standard is […]
Read MoreThese design guides will show you how to conserve water used inside and outside a building and best design practices of building exteriors for green buildings or buildings that desire to achieve LEED certification. Water use To save water in buildings, the best thing you can do is to get plumbing fixtures that consume less […]
Read MoreThe following are design guides for cooling systems in data centers. This guide will show you strategies and best practices for designing mechanical systems used in data center cooling and electrical guidelines for supplying power to the data center equipment itself. It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of air conditioning design in […]
Read MoreThis guide will show you envelope and lighting design strategies for saving energy in your building when trying to achieve LEED certification or designing a green building. Building Envelope The building envelope is the most important part of your green building design. An effective envelope can highly reduce heating and cooling energy cost due to its […]
Read MoreThe following are design guides for energy conservation when designing a green building or a building that wants to achieve LEED certification. Cooling Design Strategies When design for energy efficiency, its not only selecting energy efficient equipment that will give you the most savings. One has to look at the air conditioning system as a […]
Read MoreEnergy Star is a program developed by the US Department of Energy in 1992 to demonstrate the potential profit the United States could achieve in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. The program creates labels to identify products that have better energy efficiency ratings. Products that display the Energy Star symbol have been tested […]
Read MoreToday’s building professionals are creating healthy and environmentally friendly buildings using sustainable design methods in the construction industry. In order to verify that a building has been designed and built using strategies targeted at reaching high standards of human and environmental health, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) created a rating system called LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) to […]
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