Project: AIA 2030 Commitment

The Design Data Exchange (DDx) lets 2030 Commitment firms track their own projects and report them to the AIA. It also lets firms query the entire 2030 database to study the performance of different types of projects. Firms can see their own projects superimposed on those of other firms. Whereas their own projects can be expanded, those of other firms remain anonymized. This research screen focuses on U.S. office buildings. Modeled buildings (gray) achieve a lower predicted energy-use intensity (pEUI) than nonmodeled buildings (blue)—60 to 66 kBtu/ft2. Clickable firm-specific projects do not appear in this dataset because DOE account contains no projects.

Produced using DDx data, the 2015 AIA 2030 Commitment Annual Report showed growth in reporting in both number of firms and number of projects and square footage (figures include international projects in addition to U.S. projects). Percentage of projects modeled and modeled design performance have remained roughly constant.

One of AIA 2030 DDx features developed for the 2016 reporting cycle is an API that allows project data to be uploaded directly from design and energy modeling tools. API development was funded by Autodesk, and Autodesk Insight360 was the first tool that enabled this path.