Environmental modelling
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CAR offers advanced capabilities in modelling the environmental performance of buildings for daylight, sunlight and natural ventilation, and to predict thermal performance. |
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With extensive knowledge of the embodied energy of buildings, CAR can identify best practice, minimise the CO2 footprint, and calculate energy use trade-offs. |
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CAR’s impact assessments cover daylight, the wind environment, sustainability and renewable energy. CAR can prepare reports for planning authorities. |
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CAR carries out energy analysis and certification work on non-domestic buildings in the UK and overseas. |
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CAR is part of a team developing ClimateLite – an early stage software tool that will steer design teams towards integrated low carbon design. |
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CAR projects in Leicester and Nottingham apply image processing techniques to digital elevation models to study daylight and sunlight availability. |
Excellent design is based on sound science as well as a good feel for appearance and a sense of place. CAR has developed many scientific models showing how individual buildings or groups of buildings affect - and are affected by - the environment. These are used by developers, designers and policy makers to inform their decisions.