Zero Carbon Building

Achieving Zero Carbon Building – Performance Standard™ certification means taking responsibility for all carbon emissions associated with building operations, and eliminating climate impacts. Using utility and other data sources, this certification evaluates building performance annually.

ZCB-Performance™ evaluates carbon emissions from normal building operations such as heating and cooling. It also accounts for potential refrigerant leaks and the embodied carbon of new structural and envelope materials. The Standard recognizes the value of renewable energy and high-quality carbon offsets while encouraging strategies that account for the ever-increasing demand on electrical grids.

The ZCB-Performance Standard can be used by any building. Projects with combustion equipment must create a costed zero-carbon transition plan to show how equipment will be adapted over time to achieve decarbonization, often through regular equipment replacement life cycles.

Net-zero public building

The Green Lighthouse: the first net-zero public building in Denmark.

Green Lighthouse diagram of low-energy techniques, such as natural ventilation, heating, and cooling, together with depiction of occupants and environmental conditions. (Christensen og Co. Arkitekter A/S, Green Lighthouse, University of Copenhagen, 2009).

Since that time, we have developed many solutions and technologies to address the building efficiency problem. Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to work with a great team of researchers, software developers, architects, and engineers to develop a number of software systems, prototypes, and concepts that can help us to transform the built environment from the problematic polluter it is today, to the climate cure it can become. .

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