Low Carbon Building Design: Approaches, Embodied Energy and Carbon Calculation, and Comparison with Original Model

Low Carbon Building Design
LOW CARBON BUILDING DESIGN
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YH Details
Our YH is a 3 bedroom bungalow house located in Hawthorn VC in Melbourne which is
house model 10. The house plan has an area of 182.78m2. Below is the screenshot of the
house plan.
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Isometric views from sketchup
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RH Details
1. Identify and describe the approaches that you have applied in selecting the
construction materials to minimize the embodied energy and carbon of your
redesigned home (4 marks).
Selection of construction materials
Materials selected for our RH are shown in the screenshot below as defined in the
energy plus software. The materials chosen are more likely to achieve our main goal of
reducing carbon emission in our home due to their low carbon content. This materials include
REBricks, POP wall plasterboard, wood carpet, Mangalore roof tile, door material, rigid
polyurethane insulation, low carbon concrete, glass wall wool insulation, mineral fibre
ceiling, double glazed window, ceramic.
Selection of construction process for RH
This category entails design and building, construction methods, selection of materials and
outcome of the construction. Choice of the right material is determined by some processes
focused on minimizing carbon emission. Different layers of materials were used to construct