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Autodesk Expands Online Sustainable Design Guide Autodesk has launched updates for the Autodesk guide to sustainable design for architecture, engineering and construction. Enhancements include interactive graphical interface and resources for green building renovators. The free online guide helps industry professionals make better informed decisions to achieve building performance goals. The updated site now extends through the entire building lifecycle with new features and tools targeting green building retrofit and renovation projects, and an expanded focus on relevant issues of interest to building owners and energy service companies. The new graphical user interface presents the user with two options; New Construction or Renovation. The guide offers detailed virtual walk-throughs for all phases of a new design or renovation project, allowing visitors to view key decision points at each stage of a building's lifecycle: energy efficiency, water efficiency and carbon emissions. ...

Autodesk has developed what it says is a more rigorous methodology for corporate greenhouse-gas (GHG) target setting. Autodesk developed the Corporate Finance Approach to Climate-Stabilising Targets (C-FACT) to align its own GHG reduction targets with global scientific and policy climate-stabilisation targets. According to the company, C-FACT is more science driven, business friendly and transparent than current methodologies. In measuring its GHG emissions, Autodesk aims to take responsibility for direct emissions and a range of indirect emissions, including business travel, leased facilities, employee commuting, major conferences and data-centre vendors. Autodesk is challenging other companies to reduce their GHGs in line with scientific and policy climate stabilisation targets of 85 per cent by 2050. Autodesk's C-FACT introduces mathematical principles said to allow it to be proportional, replicable and verifiable. The company says that it is compatible with generally accep...