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Originally published in Interiors & Sources

06/16/2010

AIA Introduces Tool to Help Architecture Firms Track Predicted Energy Use in Building Projects

This tool will automatically calculate the national average site EUI for the project type, depending on the information given to the system

 
AIA Introduces Tool to Help Architecture Firms Track Predicted Energy Use in Building Projects

As part of the voluntary 2030 commitment program where architecture firms and other entities in the built environment pledge to develop multi-year action plans and implement steps that can advance the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) goal of carbon-neutral buildings by 2030, the AIA has unveiled a new tool that generates a report on predicted energy use and project modeling.

 

“This tool is a valuable resource for architecture firms and will be used on their entire portfolio, not just for projects seeking green building certification,” says AIA President George H. Miller. “The tool was specifically developed to be simple to use, and to be used by firms of all sizes on a variety of building types, large and small.”

 

The Excel-based reporting tool will only require the user to enter project use type (from a drop-down menu) and gross square footage (GSF), and answer yes/no questions.

 

Based on that information, for modeled projects the tool will automatically calculate the national average site EUI for that project type, and the project’s percent reduction from the national average EUI toward meeting the firm’s 2030 goal for the current year (currently 60 percent). For non-modeled projects, users will enter in the design standard or code; similarly, the sheet will calculate the project’s contribution toward the firm’s 2030 commitment.

 

The excel tool will generate three easy-to-decipher graphs that aggregate the individually listed active projects within the Excel sheet. These three graphs represent the report that firms will forward to the AIA. The three charts will show a snapshot of the firm portfolio, including the percentage of GSF of active projects meeting the current reduction goal, the percentage of GSF being modeled, and percentage of GSF for which the firm will gather actual energy performance.

 

Firms are asked to track all active design projects for the reporting year – not just ones seeking green building certification – and the reports developed through the tool are meant to provide a year-to-year look of a firm’s work. Firms of all sizes and building-type expertise will use the same tool and report in the same manner.

 

The tool can be used for any building project and was developed through collaboration between members of the AIA Committee on the Environment, the AIA Large Firm Roundtable, AIA Chicago Chapter Working Group, and numerous individuals from AIA member firms.

 

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