Low energy building

National Standars

• Design guidelines

Design

• Climate challenge
• Construction, technology
• Renewable energy
• Sustainable design
• Energy efficiency

Integrated design process of low-energy building

In order to build a low-energy building an integrated design process should be considered and implemented even before the first drawing sketch from an architect is produced. The integrated design process enables all the team members to work together and look upon the main requirements, possible ways and solutions that will lead to design of best possible building regarding energy and needs.

Early in building process the design team (architects, engineers, analysts and contractors) will meet to ensure the cooperation and understanding of commitments between teams. In the project a “key person” can be called upon to connect the members of team together and ensure that the integrated process will be set. In Europe this person is usually called the business process manager. The owner will play the main and critical role and will be often join by a financial manager. The perfect solution would be for the members of designer team (or head at least) to stay on the project to the very end of building.

The first step of the process (preparation) is for a developer or owner to identify the needs and commitments for high performance and energy efficiency of building. In this stage the main information should be also collected (space, number of people, budget, information about building site, type of soil, orientation, height of surrounding buildings, etc).

Second stage could be called a pre-design where the architect and teams of specialist may produced, based on information from stage one, the early graphic suggestions for the building. There should be

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Examples

Low-Energy House in Sisimiut, Greenland