Comments on: Chu: For Green Building Design, We Need to Go Open Source http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/ Helping the Earth with Technology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Google SketchUp Plus Energy Data = Open Source Green Building (Cool!) http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-39758 Google SketchUp Plus Energy Data = Open Source Green Building (Cool!) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:40:43 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-39758 <p>[...] first launched in April 2008 and downloaded by 700 users per month, could go much further. It relies on integration with an energy modeling program from NREL called EnergyPlus, which simulates building heating, [...]</p> [...] first launched in April 2008 and downloaded by 700 users per month, could go much further. It relies on integration with an energy modeling program from NREL called EnergyPlus, which simulates building heating, [...]

]]> By: Steven Chu Suggests Open Source to Design Net-Zero Energy Buildings : CleanTechnica http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-38129 Steven Chu Suggests Open Source to Design Net-Zero Energy Buildings : CleanTechnica Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:21:02 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-38129 <p>[...] Image from The University of Rochester Via Earth2Tech [...]</p> [...] Image from The University of Rochester Via Earth2Tech [...]

]]> By: U.S. & China Team Up On Cleantech Research: Bane or Boon for IP? http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34807 U.S. & China Team Up On Cleantech Research: Bane or Boon for IP? Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:06:51 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34807 <p>[...] if they’re working on the same tools (for example, Chu has said he wants the DOE to provide advanced green building design tools through an open platform), but they don’t exactly yank IP from private companies’ hands. [...]</p> [...] if they’re working on the same tools (for example, Chu has said he wants the DOE to provide advanced green building design tools through an open platform), but they don’t exactly yank IP from private companies’ hands. [...]

]]> By: LEED V.3 Opportunity: Make LEED Buildings' Energy Consumption Public | Energy Circle http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34400 LEED V.3 Opportunity: Make LEED Buildings' Energy Consumption Public | Energy Circle Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:06:47 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34400 <p>[...] - will soon become public. With a nod to Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s recent argument that green building design platforms need to be open sourced in order to be widely effective, we believe that public access to the USGBC’s data would be a [...]</p> [...] – will soon become public. With a nod to Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s recent argument that green building design platforms need to be open sourced in order to be widely effective, we believe that public access to the USGBC’s data would be a [...]

]]> By: EnergyPlus simulations with the free OpenStudio plugin for Google SketchUp | Creation Engine Blog http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34321 EnergyPlus simulations with the free OpenStudio plugin for Google SketchUp | Creation Engine Blog Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:43:19 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34321 <p>[...] Link via earth2tech.com The Department of Energy just opened up $346 million in stimulus funds for boosting the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings — but ultimately the agency’s chief, Steven Chu, wants energy efficiency, and other elements of green building, to be incorporated into structure designs from the get-go by way of an open-source software platform. [...]</p> [...] Link via earth2tech.com The Department of Energy just opened up $346 million in stimulus funds for boosting the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings — but ultimately the agency’s chief, Steven Chu, wants energy efficiency, and other elements of green building, to be incorporated into structure designs from the get-go by way of an open-source software platform. [...]

]]> By: An open source energy future? | Open Source Blog http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34293 An open source energy future? | Open Source Blog Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:32:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34293 <p>[...] Energy Secretary Stephen Chu (right) has seen our energy future and says it’s open source. [...]</p> [...] Energy Secretary Stephen Chu (right) has seen our energy future and says it’s open source. [...]

]]> By: Chu: DOE Should Provide Advanced, Open Software re: Energy Efficiency | Navitas Capital http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34252 Chu: DOE Should Provide Advanced, Open Software re: Energy Efficiency | Navitas Capital Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:57:43 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34252 <p>[...] Click here to read article [...]</p> [...] Click here to read article [...]

]]> By: Top down or bottom up alternative energy futures - SmartPlanet http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34234 Top down or bottom up alternative energy futures - SmartPlanet Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:07:18 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34234 <p>[...] stimulus but Energy Secretary Stephen Chu (right) says he’s relying on American ingenuity and a little open source to get the job [...]</p> [...] stimulus but Energy Secretary Stephen Chu (right) says he’s relying on American ingenuity and a little open source to get the job [...]

]]> By: Richard Patterson http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34214 Richard Patterson Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:35:58 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34214 <p>Entities everywhere are asked to be the central focus of their own commodity-based electricity consumption strategy. With all that needs to be done to optimize the efficiency of services (refrigeration, for example), the scale in expertise, finance and innovative prescience are way out of scale and far to granular and fragmented to mount effective programs to account for each watt of power. That is why a sea change in our cultural electricity meme needs to occur. Given the proper legal and regulatory framework, electricity the fungible commodity can be re-envisioned to electricity the service enabler, whereby highly tuned and optimized services are contracted to be paid for the service they provide, so that the technical and culturally accommodative services spawn systems of power usage and innovative technology as a single pricing unit to place efficiency and service quality that leapfrog the current fragmented, highly dispersed and gangly rig-ups of energy conservation into ordered and highly specialized electricity service companies that fine tune commodity units into profitable services that put capital-focused services, effortlessly into the hands of service consumers, not disordered commodity consumers.</p> Entities everywhere are asked to be the central focus of their own commodity-based electricity consumption strategy. With all that needs to be done to optimize the efficiency of services (refrigeration, for example), the scale in expertise, finance and innovative prescience are way out of scale and far to granular and fragmented to mount effective programs to account for each watt of power. That is why a sea change in our cultural electricity meme needs to occur. Given the proper legal and regulatory framework, electricity the fungible commodity can be re-envisioned to electricity the service enabler, whereby highly tuned and optimized services are contracted to be paid for the service they provide, so that the technical and culturally accommodative services spawn systems of power usage and innovative technology as a single pricing unit to place efficiency and service quality that leapfrog the current fragmented, highly dispersed and gangly rig-ups of energy conservation into ordered and highly specialized electricity service companies that fine tune commodity units into profitable services that put capital-focused services, effortlessly into the hands of service consumers, not disordered commodity consumers.

]]> By: Mike Sealander http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34202 Mike Sealander Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:01:10 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34202 <p>We've been doing routine energy simulation for about a year now using Revit, then Ecotect and 3ds Max (lighting analysis). The work flow requires architects to think more like engineers than well-coiffed cape-wearing color pickers (ouch!), but the end results are wonderfully quantifiable, demonstrable and make for really solid design.</p> We’ve been doing routine energy simulation for about a year now using Revit, then Ecotect and 3ds Max (lighting analysis). The work flow requires architects to think more like engineers than well-coiffed cape-wearing color pickers (ouch!), but the end results are wonderfully quantifiable, demonstrable and make for really solid design.

]]> By: What’s Hot on the GigaOM Network? http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34168 What’s Hot on the GigaOM Network? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:03:34 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34168 <p>[...] Chu: For Green Building Design, We Need to Go Open Source- Earth2Tech [...]</p> [...] Chu: For Green Building Design, We Need to Go Open Source- Earth2Tech [...]

]]> By: Josie Garthwaite http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34160 Josie Garthwaite Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:56:51 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34160 <p>@4smartgrid I don't have much background on that (Secretary Chu mentioned it in passing), but NASA has some info on its site about computation tools used in the airplane design process. Depending on how much you already know about this stuff, it might offer at least a good starting point:</p> <p>http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/background/tools/</p> @4smartgrid I don’t have much background on that (Secretary Chu mentioned it in passing), but NASA has some info on its site about computation tools used in the airplane design process. Depending on how much you already know about this stuff, it might offer at least a good starting point:

http://quest.nasa.gov/aero/background/tools/

]]> By: 4smartgrid http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34159 4smartgrid Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:46:48 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34159 <p>Josie,</p> <p>Any background info on the airplane engineering tools transformation referenced in article? Although I don't imagine there is any examples of open source model there.</p> Josie,

Any background info on the airplane engineering tools transformation referenced in article? Although I don’t imagine there is any examples of open source model there.

]]> By: 4smartgrid http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/02/chu-for-green-building-design-we-need-to-go-open-source/#comment-34158 4smartgrid Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=35831#comment-34158 <p>I think it's a matter of integrating all aspects of existing tools to make the process easier for designers. Autodesk's BIM platform has been trying to achieve this.</p> <p>China as testbed is certainly good idea, but not sure how open source tools will pan out there.</p> I think it’s a matter of integrating all aspects of existing tools to make the process easier for designers. Autodesk’s BIM platform has been trying to achieve this.

China as testbed is certainly good idea, but not sure how open source tools will pan out there.

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