Green Building Studio Releases V3.0 with Carbon Neutral Design Tools

November 09, 2007

Enabling Architects to Immediately Evaluate Carbon Neutral Building Design Strategies CHICAGO, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Greenbuild 2007 -- Green Building Studio, Inc., today announced the release and general availability of Green Building Studio V3.0. This release of the award-winning web service features ground-breaking capabilities for assessing carbon neutrality potential, total PV & wind energy, emissions, total building energy, and water consumption for commercial and residential building design alternatives, interacting seamlessly with leading BIM design tools from Autodesk, Graphisoft, and Google. The release provides US EPA ENERGY STAR Scores and Architecture 2030 targets based on every design change and meets industry standards, including ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140-2004, qualified software for Energy Policy Act of 2005, and Microsoft Platform Tests for Hosted Solutions. "The world we live in truly depends on architects making the right decisions on their building scheme selections to minimize or eliminate building CO2 emissions," said John F. Kennedy, President and CTO of Green Building Studio. "Release V3.0 shows building design teams how low they can go."

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