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1 Aldermanbury Square
201 Bishopsgate
4 West
450001: Bessemer Grange Children's Centre
450001: Bessemer Grange Old Building
450002: University of Bath Campus 4 West Building
450003: Crawley Library
450004: Brine Leas Sixth Form
450004: Loxford School
450007: Greenfields Community Housing Headquarters
450008: Pennywell Academy 360
450008: Petchey Academy
450008: Stockport Academy
450026: Estover Community College
450028: Woodland Trust Headquarters
450032: Dartington C. of E. Primary School
450033: iCon Daventry
450035: Castle Hill Primary School Assembly / Dining Hall
450041: Mayville (Mildmay) Community Centre
450043: Pool Innovation Centre
450043: Tremough Innovation Centre
450045: St. Peter the Apostle High School
450047: Cressex Community School
450048: Angmering Community Centre
450057: Thomas Paine Study Centre
450057: Thomas Paine Study Centre
450058: Eli Lilly Research Office Building (ROB)
450059: Jarman Building - School of Arts
450062: SusCon - Sustainable Construction Academy
450063: Bermondsey Square (Hotel)
450063: Bermondsey Square (Offices)
450064: Staunton-on-Wye Endowed Primary School
450075: Blue Bell Health Centre
450086: BRE Scotland Innovation Park Visitor Centre
450087: Operational Evaluation of Graham Head Office Building
450088: Ore Valley Business Centre (Lochgelly Business Centre)
450090: National Composites Centre
450092: The Main Place, Coleford Community Centre
450109: Marks and Spencer Cheshire Oaks Store
450113: Bourne Hill Council Offices Environmental Study (refurb + extension)
450114 In-use BPE Study of College Lake Wildlife Visitors Centre
8 Fitzroy Street, London
Academy 360
Active Office
Archibishop McGrath Catholic High School
Bedford Drive NW PSBP Batch
Bedlington - PSBP NE Batch
Blackburn College - STEMM
Blacon High NW PSBP Batch
BRE Garston
Brine Leas School Sixth Form
CAMHS
Charities Aid Foundation
Cheddar Woods
Cheltenham & Gloucester
Clapham Retrofit
Cullinan Studio, Baldwin Terrace
Darwen Academy
David Attenborough Building
Examination of the performance gap for one of UCL's newly retrofitted buildings
Extension, Church Vale
Finberry Primary School
Firehouse Restaurant Butlin's Skegness
Footscray Depot
Ford Farm
Gregory Street Apartments
Harris Academy, Purley
Hawkchurch Resort & Spa
HEART
Heelis, The National Trust Headquarters, SWINDON
Herefordshire Archive & Records Centre
Hundred of Hoo School
Husthwaite Village Hall
John Payne Building, Oxford Brookes University
Junior C
Keynsham Civic Centre
Langley Park Primary
Larch House
Lena Gardens
Loxford School of Science and Technology
MacArthur Elementary School
Mason Hall
Mid-Bedfordshire Local Government Offices
Millikan Laboratory Pomona College
Montgomery Primary School
Moses Dell
Newcastle University Urban Sciences Building
NewMass PCM
Oakfield Primary School
Ofgem
One Angel Square
One Stop Doctors
Ousedale School
Parity Projects Demo House
Petchey Academy
Pier Walk
Preston Manor LowerSchool
Primary A
Primary B
Primary D
Primary F
Primary G
Primary H
PROSPEKT Shopping Centre
Secondary A
Secondary C
secondary D
Secondary E
Secondary F
Secondary G
Secondary I
Secondary J
Secondary K
Secondary L
Simons Group Office
Sliding House
SP A
Stockley Academy
Stockport Academy
The Boathouse - Associated Architects
The Hive
The University of Sheffield Information Commons
TSB 450042 Rogiet BPE
TSB Pool Innovation Centre
UCL 22 Gordon Street
UEA Enterprise Centre
Wilkinson Primary School
Woodland Court
York House, London W1
Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research

Get REAL about building energy consumption

Our figures show that on average, buildings consume between 1.5 and 2.5 times predicted values

CarbonBuzz will help you close the gap between calculations and actual building performance

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THE PERFORMANCE GAP

This diagram shows typical risks of underestimating the likely energy consumption of buildings. We label these risks collectively as 'unregulated' because mandatory compliance calculations do not account for occupant-related energy use. The site invites users to go beyond compliance and refine estimates to account for these when predicting energy use.

 

CarbonBuzz currently helps users assess likely appliance and IT use including special equipment for common building types. Your data will help define the scale of impact from other risk areas which are major factors in operational carbon emissions, usability and comfort.

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Benchmarks

 

The graphs represent the median CO2 emissions for both design and actual records sector-by-sector on a scale of 0-300 kgCO2/m2/yr. The figures below each column represent the number of records per sector. Click on the graph to see a detailed breakdown of projects in related DEC benchmark categories and to view anonymous project sheets.

Current records often miss either design or the actual record as designers rarely have operational data and occupants rarely have design data. CarbonBuzz campaigns for the broader rollout of Display Energy Certificates to improve the feedback loop between design and operation.

 


What you can do?

 

The CarbonBuzz database can be browsed for free without the need for registering or logging in; participating users and practices can register and start using CarbonBuzz for free at any time. Once a project template has been created, users can add multiple records to these, each representing an annual energy record for the project. These can be drawn from any project stage from design inception to operation. Records can be created with a minimum of total gas and electricity for the year or users can drill down to finer granularity if they choose. CarbonBuzz allows users to analyse and compare data entered for their buildings at each project stage through energy and carbon graphs known as Energy Bars.Users can track, review and compare energy records and contributing factors over time and generate reports on their data for external use.

Any data that could identify a project will remain private by default and cannot be attributed to individual projects or practices unless specified by the user. However, users can choose to share their CarbonBuzz projects, records or portfolios with specified users and organisations to facilitate design and operation. Projects published as part of portfolios remain anonymised unless individually published.

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About CarbonBuzz

 

 

There is growing evidence that current legislation is not achieving the expected reductions in the actual energy use of buildings and, if anything, can have significant unintended consequences. Large portfolio holders, in particular, are taking notice of commercial risks associated with new ‘low carbon’ buildings and refurbishments falling short of performance expectations.

CarbonBuzz is an RIBA CIBSE platform for benchmarking and tracking energy use in projects from design to operation. It is intended to encourage users to go beyond compliance of mandatory Building Regulations calculations and refine estimates to account for additional energy loads in-use. The platform allows users to compare design energy use with actual energy use side by side to help users close the design and operational energy performance gap in buildings.

 

 

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