What Colour Is Your Building

What Colour Is Your Building?

Measuring and reducing the energy and carbon footprint of buildings

David Clark, 2013

“has a key role to play in the development of a new approach to sustainable urban environments”

“challenges all those involved in the built environment – policy makers, planners, designers, builders, managers and occupants – to focus on the issues that make a difference.”

Sir David King, UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change, 2013

Book

The book was originally published in 2013 and is now out of print. A free pdf version of the book can be downloaded here.

A 30 minute summary can be downloaded here.

Appendices

A: Energy, CO2 and climate change

B: CO2e emission factors

C: Energy consumption data

D: Operating energy rating methodology

E: Embodied carbon data

F: Transport carbon data

G: Whole carbon footprint benchmarking

H: Reducing operating carbon

I: Renewable energy data

J: Materials data

K: Travel planning

L: Financial incentives

M: Building X and Hotel Y

Whole carbon footprint tool

Information Papers

1. Security of energy supply

2. Adapting buildings to climate change

3. Fuel mix in grid electricity

4. CO2e emissions from biomass & biofuels

5. Emission factors for black carbon

6. CO2e emissions due to office waste

7. Analysis of display energy certificates 2008–10

8. US office energy data

9. Design energy rating data

10. Area and age of UK office stock

11. Comparison of building energy benchmark to total UK energy

12. Embodied carbon case studies for office buildings

13. Embodied carbon standards

14. Land use efficiency – city centre versus rural

16. Heating degree days

17. Thermal comfort standards

18. Types of blinds for offices

19. Facade modelling – daylight and thermal performance

20. Ventilation rates in offices – mechanical and natural

22. Chiller energy efficiency

23. Solar hot water types & efficiencies

24. Photoltaic panel types and efficiencies

25. Biomass and biofuel sources

26. Wind speed data

27. Wind turbine performance

28. CHP types and efficiencies

29. CHP calculations

30. UK Government incentives for renewable energy

31. Embodied carbon of steel versus concrete buildings

32. Corporate attitudes to sustainability

33. Productivity in office buildings

34. The green premium – is it real?

35. The rising cost of energy and carbon

“Debunking myths and providing a simple step by step guide to measuring and minimising real energy use, this is essential reading”
Paul King, CEO of UK Green Building Council

“An indispensable read for anyone who is serious about tackling carbon emissions”
Richard Francis, Chair of BCSC Low Carbon Working Group

“A very good and timely read”
Pooran Desai, OBE, co-founder BioRegional and International Director, One Planet Communities

“Compulsory reading for all built environment students”
Miles Keeping, Partner of Deloitte Real Estate and Chairman of Investment Property Forum Sustainability Interest Group

“Essential reading for all sustainable construction and property practitioners”
Steven Borncamp, co-Director of Construction21: International and Founding President of Romania Green Building Council

“Remarkable common sense”
Andrew McNaughton, CEO Balfour Beatty plc and Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers

“Guidance and data is clearly presented and in a straightforward way free from jargon”
Professor John Connaughton, University of Reading, School of Construction Management and Engineering

“Lucid and comprehensive”
Rab Bennetts, OBE, Director, Bennetts Associates

“David's call to action rings true”
S. Richard Fedrizzi, Chairman of World Green Building Council and President, CEO and Founding Chair of U.S. Green Building Council