Originally published on November 9, 2018 by BNP Media through the Building Enclosure Blog. Ventilation rates in our buildings can be a complicated subject and there is no shortage on ways to assess how air is brought into an indoor environment. Yet, a basic question that commonly emerges is simply: How much ventilation should I provide in a building? ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 62.1 When it comes to defining minimum ventilation rates in buildings (except for low-rise residential), the premiere reference is ANSI/ASHRAE….
Read MoreDaniel Overbey of Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf Selected as 2018 LEED Fellow
LEED Fellows are LEED Professionals at the top of their fields in green building design, engineering and development INDIANAPOLIS –– Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf (Browning Day) announces that Daniel Overbey, director of Sustainability, has been named a 2018 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI). This year’s 25 LEED Fellows are exceptional practitioners and leaders within the green building community and have demonstrated mastery of the technical application of LEED, the world’s most widely used green building rating system…..
Read MoreBrowning Day Takes Home 9 Awards This Season
Our team of talented landscape architects and architects have worked very hard over the past year. The Browning Day and Turner Construction team took home four awards during the CANstruction event at the Indiana State Fair this summer. Firms in the architecture, engineering and construction industry partnered up to create structures out of cans of food. The cans were then donated to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, one of the largest local food banks in the state. The team won….
Read MoreBrowning Day Interior Designers Become Fitwel Ambassadors
Designers support the health and well-being for client projects Whether it’s where we live, or where we work, the spaces we occupy have a great impact on our lives. This month marked a milestone for our firm, with each of our Interior Designers achieving certification as Fitwel Ambassadors; aligning with the Center for Active Design’s mission of advancing design strategies to foster healthy and engaged communities. As Fitwel Ambassadors, Lacey Causseaux, Director of Interior Design; Katie Thompson, Interior Design Project….
Read MoreThe Health Impacts of Indoor Relative Humidity
Originally published on October 1, 2018 by BNP Media through the Building Enclosure Blog. In many parts of the U.S., homeowners with basements have to manage rising humidity levels for most of the cooling season. It is not uncommon for such individuals to have a dehumidifer running full-throttle in the basement from April through October. High indoor humidity levels has been associated with the growth of fungi, such as mold, among other irritants. The EPA suggests keeping indoor relative….
Read MoreJens Jensen in Indianapolis: The Restoration of Riverdale
The Riverdale Garden: Jens Jensen’s and the Sisters of Oldenburg Influence on Marian University’s Restored Landscape of Art Love of nature and the created order. I first became aware of Riverdale 12 years ago in 2006, when Vice President of Administration, Deb Lawrence, noticed that I had listed Jens Jensen’s small book “Siftings” as one of my favorite books in an Indianapolis Business Journal article. And so, she sent me a written note to seek my interest in the “befriending”….
Read MoreClarifying Energy Simulation Aided Design: A Look at ASHRAE Standard 209
Originally published on September 5, 2018 by BNP Media through the Building Enclosure Blog. ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 209-2018, Energy Simulation Aided Design for Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings is the product of a half-decade of inertia within the building design and construction community toward leveraging energy modeling a design tool through a project. Standard 209 outlines the minimum requirements for providing energy design assistance using building energy simulation and analysis. To this end, the standard defines a range of minimum criteria from energy modeling requirements,….
Read MoreBrowning Day’s Daniel Overbey Joins BSU in Unique Research Opportunity
Browning Day Mullins Dierdorf is proud to congratulate Daniel Overbey, AIA, LEED AP, WELL AP, NCARB, for accepting a position to serve as an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning (CAP). Daniel will continue to lead Browning Day’s excellence in green building design initiatives. This opportunity supports Browning Day’s goal to continue to be thought leaders in sustainability through the unique combination of academics, applied research, and professional practice. Starting this fall, Daniel will….
Read MoreHow to Make Building Energy Models More Accurate
Originally published on August 13, 2018 by BNP Media through the Building Enclosure Blog. I’m asked regularly about the discrepancies between modeled and measured building performance. At first blush, one might suspect that the building energy model (BEM) itself contains bad information. That notion could very well be correct! BEM inputs require a certain level of synthesis, interpretation, and assumption. But there are many other reasons why the BEM results may vary significantly from measured performance outcomes on a completed project. In basic terms: Actual weather in….
Read MoreBeware of Galvanic Action (It’s a Thing)
Originally published on July 10, 2018 by BNP Media through the Building Enclosure Blog. The concept of “galvanic action” is confounding to many design professionals. In simple terms, galvanic action refers to the corrosive effect created when two electrochemically dissimilar metals are in direct contact with each other. Their contact creates a conductive path for electrons and ions to move from one metal to the other. As ions move from one metal to another, corrosion occurs. The remedy is to….
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