Latest news 05 June 2010
Businesses involved in the construction industry could benefit from a new sustainability software tool.
Designed to help meet sustainability targets, the Butterfly product has been designed by technical buildings and insurance specialist BLP.
BLP claim that Butterfly will “simplify and improve decision making for new build and refurbishment developments by incorporating life cycle, fabric, embodied and operational energy and carbon metrics as well as a Code for Sustainable Homes calculator”.
Academics and industry experts from the University of Cambridge, University College London Energy Institute and Willmott Dixon Housing worked with BLP on the project.
Simon Main, managing director of the BLP, commented: “This is a significant and radical development for a market place that has for too long been preoccupied with initial capital cost.
“With this new product we are responding to the need to help the supply chain address the design and construction of low carbon, energy efficient buildings.”
Posted by Emily Thomas
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