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Sustainability / Energy
Daylighting – The Whole Building Design Guide / National Institute of Building Sciences
Green Globes- Building Rating System / Environmental Design and Management Tool
Guides for Energy-Efficient/ Sustainable Design
Energy Design Resources: integrated building design
Energy Design Resources: Glazing
Energy Design Resources: Advanced Simulation
Building Life-Cycle Cost (BLCC) Program : Economic analysis tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for the U.S. Department of Energy Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP).
Whole Building Design Guide (A program of the National Institute of Building Sciences):
WBDG: Building Envelope Design
WBDG: Building Envelope Glazing
WBDG: Building Envelope Design – Daylighting
WBDG: Building Envelope Design – Productivity
WBDG: Building Envelope Design – Life Cycle Cost Tool
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL, a division of the Department of Energy) Tools for Building Envelope Analysis
OpenStudio by LBNL and NREL – Early Stage Energy Modeling with Sketch Up PLug In
ComFen – For Calculating the Energy and Comfort Impact of Windows in Commercial Bldgs
ComFen 4.1 User Manual (Version 5 coming soon)
Radiance Daylighting Software – Desktop Version – Synthetic Imaging System
Radsite – Radiance Online – A validated lighting simulation tool
Simergy – NEW User-Friendly Interface for Energy Plus
Energy Plus – with links to Simergy, Space Boundary, energy PLus, Modelica, Bldg Controls, GenOP
LBNL Life Cycle Cost Analysis Program
LBNL Business Case Study for Sustainable Design
Commercial Windows Comparison Tool
Architecture / Design
Panelite
Panelite at Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial
New York Times Review of Cooper Hewitt National Design Triennial “…one of the show’s most brilliant and promising moments is provided by Panelite, whose orange plastic honeycomb panels, made mostly of recycled material, line the Cooper-Hewitt’s conservatory and have already been used in an OMA building.”
dsgnWrld on Panelite ClearShade and Bonded Series
Our favorite TED Talks on Design, Architecture, Urbanism and Sustainability
William McDonough on Cradle to Cradle Design