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Building Momentum for Carbon-Neutral Architecture
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February 28, 2013

Building Momentum for Carbon-Neutral Architecture

By Cheryl Kaften
TMCnet Contributor

If you build it, they will come—especially, if you build it green.

According to the U.S. Green Building Council, there’s been a 35-percent increase in the number of new U.S. buildings that are being certified by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) — a voluntary, consensus-based, market­-driven program that provides third-party verification of green build.


One leading proponent of green building is Architecture 2030, based in Santa Fe, NM, an independent not-for-profit whose mission is to rapidly transform the U.S. and global building sector from the major contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, to a central part of the solution to climate change, energy consumption and economic crises.

To accomplish this, Architecture 2030 issued The 2030 Challenge (see video) in 2006 — asking the global architecture and building community to achieve the following reduction targets: 60 percent today, 70 percent by 2015, 80 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2025 – reaching total “carbon neutrality” by 2030.

To reach this goal, the sector must adopt sustainable design strategies; chief among them, generating onsite renewable power and/or purchasing renewable energy.

Now, Charleston, South Carolina-based GreenWizard, a software provider for the design and construction community has entered into an additional, deeper partnership with Architecture 2030 to provide enabling technology for the 2030 Challenge.

Metrics are essential to any green-building project. Through the use of technology, data can be gathered to measure and benchmark against energy goals. GreenWizard’s new free Energy Reduction Calculator will help gauge progress of the 2030 Challenge targets for energy use in new construction and major renovations. With a minimal amount of information, the Energy Reduction Calculator can determine the target energy use for a project and help to benchmark against the 2030 Challenge goals.

The Calculator can also input data from an energy modeling tool or import an eQuest PARMS file, if available.

“The goal of our partnership with Architecture 2030 is to achieve relevant carbon reduction through two key drivers: Architecture 2030’s well-regarded thought leadership and GreenWizard’s advanced technology solutions for the design and construction community, further leveraging our relationships with the nation’s top design and construction firms and our $13 billion in existing projects,” said GreenWizard’s founder and CEO, Adam Bernholz. “With our free cloud platform, and the capability to automatically upload energy model output files, GreenWizard has simplified the process of analyzing and reporting building information relevant to the 2030 Challenge.”




Edited by Braden Becker


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