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Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Building's Life‐Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process
10.1002/ad.1090.abs
The Green Footstep model provides a valuable set of metrics for ecodesign and masterplanning. Here Michael Bendewald and Victor Olgyay of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), with Ken Yeang, describe the significance of this new online tool. In addition to supplying the basis for balancing the built environment's engineering systems, the Green Footstep enables efficiency with the use of renewable energy systems, such as photovoltaics (illustrated here). By presenting the critical case for increasing the percentage of new vegetation and trees in new developments, it enhances local biodiversity. Carbon emissions are offset from: on‐site clearance of vegetation, the disturbance of the many constituents of the local ecosystem and the removal of organic rich soil by new construction. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Building's Life‐Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process
10.1002/ad.1090.abs
The Green Footstep model provides a valuable set of metrics for ecodesign and masterplanning. Here Michael Bendewald and Victor Olgyay of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), with Ken Yeang, describe the significance of this new online tool. In addition to supplying the basis for balancing the built environment's engineering systems, the Green Footstep enables efficiency with the use of renewable energy systems, such as photovoltaics (illustrated here). By presenting the critical case for increasing the percentage of new vegetation and trees in new developments, it enhances local biodiversity. Carbon emissions are offset from: on‐site clearance of vegetation, the disturbance of the many constituents of the local ecosystem and the removal of organic rich soil by new construction. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Green Footstep: A Tool for Evaluating a Building's Life‐Cycle Carbon Footprint and Informing Carbon Decisions During the Building Design Process
Bendewald, Michael (author) / Olgyay, Victor (author) / Yeang, Ken (author)
Architectural Design ; 80 ; 126-129
2010-05-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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