DASH, the Database for Analyzing Sustainable and High Performance Buildings, was established by the Green Building Alliance out of a need for a consistent protocol for the collection and reporting of quantitative data about green, sustainable, and high performance buildings that could be easily accessed by developers, investors, facility owners and managers, architects, engineers, contractors, and product manufacturers. While many research efforts are underway to collect building performance data, they are limited in scope (by developer, owner, company, region) or by category (real estate, energy, productivity), with little cross-over. Through a collaboration of existing building information databases, organizations, companies, and researchers, the DASH will provide a centralized clearinghouse of databases that will be linked and standardized for more comprehensive performance assessments. The Green Building Alliance is the facilitator and catalyst for this much-needed project, which will be co-managed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers. National stakeholders from real estate, industry, consulting, academia, national laboratories and government are engaged at all levels from consortium to advisory board, partner and committee participant.
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