1. You should be able to achieve the same
energy and water savings as any Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) Platinum building around the world, because there is nothing magical or
geographically specific about good design.
2. A high-performance building stands out due
to the commitment of the owner and building team to achieve “best-in-class”
results. noted that the projects he studied were all LEED Platinum, which means
they started with high-performance energy-efficiency and water-conservation
goals, along with other green building measures.
3. High-performance design uses
about the same energy everywhere in the world, said, from Northern Europe to
the tropics. Typically, once a good building envelope and efficient HVAC system
have been put in place, half the remaining energy use comes from plug and
process loads, along with lighting, which tend to be geographically similar in
most office buildings, leaving about 15-20 percent for heating and cooling
loads to account for regional differences.
4. The best green buildings are just as
beautiful as buildings with ordinary energy and water performance. One of the
core tenets of the book, he stated, is that there is no inherent conflict
between buildings with great architectural value and those with
high-performance green characteristics.
5. Finally, the research indicated that there
are no standard definitions of building energy use, and no good ways to “tease
out” core energy use from special operations such as onsite data centers. In
fact, in Australia, the authors were surprised to find that building energy use
is typically reported only for the base building, leaving out tenant loads in
commercial offices, a practice that dramatically understates actual energy use
and one for which the book was able to account.
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