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New Tool Adds Transportation to the Green Building Equation

Tim Halbur, 28 December 2010, Planetizen

A new free online tool, developed by the Center for Neighborhood Technology for the US Green Building Council, adds the effect of transportation and indirect emissions to the sustainable building equation.


The Transportation Energy Index online tool will be available in early 2011.

 

 

New building tools detect varied shades of green


Chicago Tribune, December 27, 2010

 

Computer models take into account more than building materials, adding in the effects of transportation, other indirect emissions



The Chicago-based Center for Neighborhood Technology has developed a free online tool called the Transportation Energy Index that can calculate the overall time spent commuting (walking, bicycling, driving, commuting by train or bus etc) to and from a building based on location, using user-generated transportation and census data. This is the intersection of North, Milwaukee and Damon avenues. (Phil Velasquez, Chicago Tribune / December 5, 2010)

 

If you plop a green building in the middle of nowhere, is it still green?



That's exactly what businesses, sustainability experts and planners are trying to find out. The growing "green buildings" movement is taking a new direction with the development of computer models that go beyond measuring a building's carbon footprint and attempt to quantify the amount of energy people consume to reach that building.

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