METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS

摘要

Disclosed is a method (200) for capturing, storing, analysing and reporting operational environmental impacts of a non-residential building (102), the method comprising the steps of determining (201) a set of building specific data capture metrics, environmental externality metrics, and standard denominators that support calculations and reporting compliant with an international standard for Greenhouse Gas reporting and measurement, defining (205) a hierarchical scope for data capture, capturing (207) and characterising data, as directed by a set of software procedures based upon the metrics and executing on a computer platform (125), for the carbon and/or energy intensity of the building (102) and other building related and environmental performance data as specified by the defined data sets, processing (211) the captured data to determine a core data set (130) comprising the originally captured data and common operational intensity data for the building, and storing (213) the core data set on an electronically accessible database (131).