SPOT – An Online Database for Easily Adding Acurate Sustainability Product Data to Revit Models (Updated)

Updated on January, 4 2017 to add the following:

Editor's Note: The Revit add-in mentioned in the article is currently under development and in private Beta testing. Launch is expected in April.

From the HingePoint blog:

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) wants to get credible sustainability data into Revit models more easily.

To do so, UL recently launched a web-based product, sustainability-information tool that will help users select credible green products and place that information into their Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow.

“Most people know UL for our fire, mechanical, safety testing; we’ve been doing that for 120 years,” said UL public affairs director Mark Rossolo at Autodesk University. “What most people also don’t know though that we are the largest certifier of sustainable products for use in the buildings.”

The web app–called SPOT–features more than 40,000 products. SPOT’s database will help architects and designers identify products by sustainable attributes, MasterFormat product codes and building rating system credits such as LEED v4 and the WELL Building Standard™.

One Click LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment)

From the Autodesk App Store...

Get your buildings Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) done in One Click! One Click LCA™ plugin delivers instant and certification- and standards-compliant LCA results from your Autodesk® Revit® models. One Click LCA™ is an easy-to-use one-button plugin that delivers an automated Life-Cycle Assessment from your Revit models.

You can use the results to improve your design as well as to earn valuable certification credits, including LEED v4's MRc1 Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction, BREEAM Mat 01 Life cycle impacts and many others. All calculations within the software are standard-based and follow a strict protocol. What used to take weeks, is now possible in less than an hour One Click LCA™.

The plugin works with structural and architectural models and is able to adapt to your material labeling practices. The cloud service to which the plugin connects detects the materials used in your model and calculates their environmental impacts automatically.

For any certification: LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, HQE and nearly 20 other systems

Works also without Revit: You can use the cloud service directly or upload data from and Excel or an IFC file

Toolkit for certification: in addition of LCA, the cloud platform also supports other materials credits as well as Life Cycle Costing and operational performance tracking.

The plugin consists of two buttons; one for doing the LCA
and another for opening online help.

The cloud service to which the plugin connects allows
choosing the targeted certification scheme in just one click.

Updated Revit Credit Manager for LEED Now Available on Autodesk Labs

From the It's Alive in the Lab blog...

The Revit Credit Manager for LEED allows you to automate calculations for your LEED Daylighting and Views IEQ 8.1 (Daylight Option 1 Simulation and Option 2 Prescriptive) and IEQ8.2 (Views) cred

Based on participant feedback, this [latest] build contains an update for the hyperlinking issue. [Following] is some info from the user guide.

There's more information available on the It's Alive in the Lab blog.

Credit:

Updated Revit Credit Manager for LEED Now Available on Autodesk Labs http://t.co/vnr3HPa00Y #autodesklabs
— Autodesk Labs Scott (@scottsh115) October 2, 2014

Revit Credit Manager for LEED on Autodesk Labs

From the Autodesk Labs website...

The Revit Credit Manager for LEED® will allow you to automate calculations for your LEED Daylighting and Views IEQ 8.1 (Daylight Option 1 Simulation and Option 2 Prescriptive) and IEQ8.2 (Views) credits as well as streamline the submittals conveniently from inside Autodesk® Revit® 2014 software.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Labs website.