Technology | 2010.01.05
1st Pricing to Offer LEED Building Component Calculations in their 5D BIM Search Engine
1st Pricing, a Southern California-based eCommerce and Technology Company, will soon be offering LEED calculations for specific building components as part of their revolutionary 1st Pricing BIM search technology. LEED is a Green Building Certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The LEED Certification Systems helps to quantify sustainability and building efficiencies. “In order to mainstream Green or Sustainable building practices, you need to make the information more easily available and useable.” said Douglas Lopez, founder of 1st Pricing. “We have been providing “live” pricing for real-world products since 2003 so calculating LEED credits on those products will be a simple but value-added proposition.” Lopez continues “One section of the LEED calculation specifically deals with Materials and Resources – we will be able to automatically calculate LEED credits for materials used in the design model with manufacturer specific data. The key part to making BIM more effective is to make it “native” to the design process – no import or export – no upload or download. We do that now and the new LEED process will be part of that “native” approach.” (PRWeb Jan 5, 2010)
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