BuildME

Framework to calculate building material & energy expenditures.

The framework was originally created by Niko Heeren for the work on the UNEP IRP report on Ressource Efficiency and further developed by other contributors: Kamila Krych, Sahin Akin, and others.

Publications

The code was used in the following publications:

• UNEP IRP report on Ressource Efficiency (commit c164a07)
• Global scenarios of resource and emission savings from material efficiency in residential buildings and cars (commit 574da69)
• Factors influencing the life-cycle GHG emissions of Brazilian office buildings
• Archetype-based energy and material use estimation for the residential buildings in Arab Gulf countries

Documentation

For documentation, see the list of documentation files in docs/README.md. In particular, before you run BuildME, please perform the software setup according to the instructions in docs/setup.md.

Authors & contributions

Niko Heeren, Kamila Krych, Sahin Akin, Andrea Nistad