{"id":654,"date":"2021-08-10T12:06:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:06:07","slug":"climate-change-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"CLIMATE CHANGE EMERGENCY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Climate change is having a significant impact on businesses, society, and individuals. It is increasingly understood that a shift towards a low-carbon economy is needed. The building and construction sector plays a central role in this shift. The sector\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for approximately 40% of global GHG emissions. The major contributors to these emissions are the materials used as well as the heating, cooling, and lighting of buildings and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, around 80% of UK buildings that will be occupied in 2050 have already been&nbsp;built. Long-term adaptation strategies are therefore necessary to ensure that buildings and the built environment are resilient to future climate impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For high performance buildings an early exercise with Building Performance Simulation by Energy Modelling enables the evaluation of numerous solutions to explore these parameters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Low embodied energy with environmental appropriate materials<\/li><li>Lower costs with selection of new materials and technologies<\/li><li>Hybrid solutions<\/li><li>On-site generation and energy storage systems<\/li><li>Level of disruption to occupants<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are just some of the factors and this process starts with simple modelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building professionals including Architects will generally require a visual 3D model at an early stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The Greenspace Live <a href=\"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/site\/products\/gmodeller\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/site\/products\/gmodeller\/\"><strong>gModeller<\/strong> <\/a>based on Trimble Sketchup enables an early exercise in Energy Modelling and energy analysis engine <a href=\"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/site\/products\/genergy\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/site\/products\/genergy\/\"><strong>gEnergy<\/strong> <\/a>enables full dynamic simulation to optimise solutions and address the emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate change is having a significant impact on businesses, society, and individuals. It is increasingly understood that a shift towards a low-carbon economy is needed. The building and construction sector plays a central role in this shift. The sector\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions account for approximately 40% of global GHG emissions. The major contributors to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-genergy","category-gmodeller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}