Tally
provides AEC professionals with insight into how materials-related decisions
made during design influence a building’s overall ecological footprint.
Architecture firm KieranTimberlake, in conjunction with PE International and Autodesk Sustainability Solutions, announce the commercial availability of Tally, a
software application for Revit that calculates the environmental impact of
building materials. Fully integrated into Revit, Tally is expected to provie
architects, engineers, and building professionals with insight into how
materials-related decisions made during design influence a building’s overall
ecological footprint.
Backed by
the rigor and credibility of GaBi data from PE International, the application
enables life cycle assessment (LCA) on demand, documenting information across
eight life cycle impact categories that align with LEED v4 and other rating
systems. While working in a Revit model,
Tally users correlate modeled elements to a custom LCA database built on GaBi,
the largest environmental dataset for LCA used by leading corporations
worldwide for both internal and critically-reviewed published studies. The
database combines material attributes, assembly details, engineering and
architectural specifications with environmental impact data, including branded
information from manufacturer environmental product declarations (EPDs).
The commercial release
follows a three-month public beta, in which nearly 500 users tested Tally and
provided feedback on a broad range of design scenarios.
Category: Technology Highlight
Source: Building Design +
Construction,
http://www.bdcnetwork.com/meet-tally-%E2%80%93-revit-app-calculates-environmental-impact-building-materials
Author: Kieran Timberlake
Date of
Publication: March
10, 2014
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