Synopses & Reviews
This
Reference Guide is targeted to architects, engineers, contractors, commissioning authorities, and other building professionals. The goal of the Reference Guide is to provide a complete reference tool that provides most of the information needed by design professionals to produce cost-effective advanced buildings.
The Reference Guide serves two key purposes. First, it provides detailed explanations on how to use the Advanced Buildings Benchmark system and how to meet the Advanced Buildings Benchmark criteria. The Reference Guide describes in detail the two general types of Benchmark criteria: Basic (required) and credit.
Second, the Reference Guide recommends measures and design strategies that go beyond the Advanced Buildings Benchmark. These additional materials address daylighting concepts, advanced mechanical concepts, and advanced building envelope schemes among others.
The Reference Guide is organized into six chapters:
- Introduction
- Process, Quality Assurance, and Documentation
- Building Envelope
- Mechanical Systems
- Electric Lighting and Daylighting
- Power
To assist your firm in taking the first step toward an integrated design process, Advanced Buildings has created the Advanced Building Reference Guide and Design Process Checklists. Those resources provide a set of maps, narratives and reference lists so that the design team can set clear expectations with the client and other team members.