Articles by Daniel Overbey

The building design and construction industry is at the cusp of sea change in how we quantify and consider carbon emissions in the built environment. Any strategy toward reducing the greenhouse gas contributions of the building sector will require a rigorous, comprehensive approach to carbon emissions

The building design and construction industry is increasing focused on the embodied carbon of building materials and construction

In the building design industry there is no shortage of principles, frameworks, standards, model codes and rating systems that endeavor to help enterprises balance economic prosperity and preserve environmental quality

Historically, LEED has prompted teams to purchase “green power” via qualified renewable energy credits to account for a certain proportion of the project’s anticipated electricity usage.

The ITC is currently a 30 percent federal tax credit claimed against the tax liability of residential and commercial and utility investors in renewable energy property

There are many ways of gauging the relative heating and/or cooling needs of a building due to the local climate. However, a long-established metric is the "degree day"

Heat always flows from substances of a warmer temperature to substances of a cooler temperature. Heat (thermal energy) will be exchanged in an environment until a common temperature (equilibrium) is achieved.

In order to realize a more sustainable built environment, we must address concrete: how we use it; how it is made; how much of it we use

What might initially appear to be minor changes to referenced documents may actually give us a glimpse into big changes on the horizon for how we approach building commissioning

There are several long-standing studies that consider the thermal performance of green roofs