Tally® moves to Building Transparency

Tally, the life cycle assessment (LCA) add-in for Revit has been transferred to Building Transparency, makers of the embodied carbon construction-phase procurement tool, EC3.

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Free Online AIA San Antonio Event - Introduction to Zero Carbon

My colleague Kate Sector, LFA, LEED Green Associate, Design Performance Coordinator at Lake | Flato, will be presenting Introduction to Zero Carbon: Achieving Operational & Embodied Balance next week. She is also the regional LFA Ambassador

The event is free and attendees receive AIA and LFA continuing education credit..

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Webinar - Reducing Embodied Carbon with EC3 and Tally

Interested in embodied carbon and life cycle assessment (LCA) as it pertains to architectural design? Be sure to check out a webinar this week (January 16, 2020) on the new feature/workflow which allows Tally to export data to EC3...

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Sustainable Design Starts with You!

Most people I talk to within the architectural profession say their firm does not do enough, if any, energy modeling. Surprisingly, less than half of the firms who have committed to the AIA's 2030 Commitment have not reported their portfolios (2019 Report, pg. 26). Additionally, the AIA 2030 By the Numbers Report says...

"In 2018, on average, modeled projects have an approximately 25% higher pEUI reduction than non modeled projects. Yet, the percentage of projects being modeled has not significantly changed since 2017, hovering around 50% for both the number of projects and the percentage of total GSF. This represents a significant missed opportunity." (2019 Report, pg. 28)

My impression is, in addition to the pressures of project deadlines, people just don't know where to start. The barrier to entry can appear especially limiting to those without any formal training around sustainable design, environmental science or energy modeling in particular.

Regardless of the preconceived obstacles,
sustainable design begins with you!

Thus, today's motivational post will highlight several resources and ideas you can use to develop your professional skills, raise the bar at your firm, and make the world a better place:)

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Tally - Life Cycle Assessment - By KieranTimberlake

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an important component of a holistic sustainable design approach to designing a building. In this post I will share a Revit add-in we use to comply with State requirements here in Minnesota. The product is Tally by the architecture firm KieranTimberlake - a full-service architecture, planning and research firm based in Philadelphia, PA,

"The first LCA app that lets you calculate the environmental impacts of your building material selections directly in an Autodesk® Revit® model."

Links:

• Product website: http://choosetally.com/
• KT website: https://kierantimberlake.com/pages/view/95/tally/parent:4

How it Works:

Project Set up:

First, we have to set up the project. This can be based on a full building assessment or...