Aedas Shortlisted as Sustainable Designer of the Year | Aedas | News & Events | 6/10/2009 | 6/10/2009

Celebrating the very best examples of sustainable buildings, The Sustainable Awards has shortlisted Aedas as a finalist in the Sustainable Designer of the Year category. The awards will be presented on 24 November at the annual awards ceremony in London.

Championed by Aedas Architects and using the CIBSE Energy Benchmarks with software from the BRE, CarbonBuzz provides a platform to benchmark and track project energy use from design to operation. It enables designers to compare forecast and actual energy use for their projects against the benchmarks and data for projects entered by participating practices anonymously.

The aim of the platform is to raise awareness of the measurement of CO2 emissions from buildings and show the difference between forecast and real energy use. It is also hoped that it will help the industry address the sources of this discrepancy. It presents a template that encourages participating practices to share emissions and energy use data for all their buildings, both during design and once a building is occupied.

www.carbonbuzz.org