Construction codes and energy assessments

Kernel32

I am trying to find information on standards in Ireland/UK/Europe that are equivalent to what is in the US. I work for a technology company in the US and our software manages capital renewal projects and more recently energy assessment projects for large property holders. Examples would be in commercial real estate, government and education. Check us out if you want http://www.maricortech.com

It looks like we will be doing some business soon in the UK with a partner their. One of the things our software does it allow you to take a building an describe it using standardized codes. We use Uniformat II codes. Here is an example http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/sec.asp?TRACKID=&CID=1379&DID=6022. It's a multi-level coding system that can get pretty detailed. I am trying to find any similar type coding system for Europe or the UK. Anyone got any ideas?

The second piece of information I am trying to find relates to energy assessments. In the US a lightweight energy assessment system called Facility Energy Decision System was developed by a national lab over a number of years. It provides a model that allows you to break down a building into it's different system components, fuels, areas etc and then has an analysis engine that generates suggested retrofits based on certain payback factors. Examples would be to change from oil to gas if it's an available fuel, or increase roof insulation etc. The website is http://www.pnl.gov/feds/. We integrated this with our software and it works well. Are there any such models/system/processes in Europe? One of the cool things about FEDS is it's ability to infer detail data from basic data. As an example based on the year constructed, location and type of building it can infer what heating system, cooling system etc are likely in place. That's the kind of functionality I would like to reproduce for the UK market.

Any help, links etc would be great!

godtabh

Contact the BSI. They are good for finding information on codes and stuff like that

Ghost Train

Working in a design office for a while, the digital library (twenty or so cds) of building codes etc we used were provided by these people
http://www.barbour.info/BarbourInfo/Home

godtabh

eolhc wrote:

Working in a design office for a while, the digital library (twenty or so cds) of building codes etc we used were provided by these people
http://www.barbour.info/BarbourInfo/Home

They have an online service which has Irish standards which the cds dont

Ghost Train

kearnsr wrote:

They have an online service which has Irish standards which the cds dont

maybe it depends on the cd sets you get, definitely had some irish codes on the cds, the online service is very good btw. i think they offer a trial of the online service so might be worth contacting them

Kernel32

Thanks guys. I have sent a request for information to Barbour.

godtabh

eolhc wrote:

maybe it depends on the cd sets you get, definitely had some irish codes on the cds, the online service is very good btw. i think they offer a trial of the online service so might be worth contacting them

Not the current ones. The Irish people wont allow them to reproduce the new ones on CD