BIM in Small-Scale Sustainable Design -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Building Information Models and Modeling -- The cost of buildings -- See, change -- BIM for the rest of us -- What this book is, and isn't -- A word on the case studies -- 1: BIM and Sustainable Design -- The emergence of Building Information Modeling -- BIM for design -- High-performance architecture -- Case study: Moonrise Ranch -- 2: Design Software -- BIM applications -- Complementary software -- Further reading -- Case Study: Parameterized Hauer Curtain Wall -- 3: Site Analysis -- Developing a site model -- Analyzing the site -- Case Study: House in Sonoma -- 4: Massing Analysis -- Creating massing models -- Perimeter/volume ratios: optimizing for envelope quantity -- Confirming desirable and undesirable views -- Preliminary cost and feasibility analysis -- Preliminary passive heating and cooling design data -- Case Study: New High School -- 5: Solar Geometry and Daylighting -- Shade from the sun -- Daylighting -- Case Study: Ross Street House -- 6: Passive Cooling -- Appropriate responses for local climates -- Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for cooling strategies -- Case Study: Hadlow College Rural Regeneration Centre -- 7: Passive Heating -- Rules of thumb and sizing guidelines for heating strategies -- Whole-building heat loss -- Whole-building heat gain -- Case Study: Battelle Darby Creek Environmental Center -- 8: Onsite Energy Systems -- Solar photovoltaics -- Azimuth and elevation -- Solar thermal systems -- Wind turbines -- Case Study: Cascadia Center for Sustainable Design and Construction -- 9: Building Hydrology -- Site design for water -- Rainwater harvesting -- Plumbing fixture efficiency -- Sizing constructed wetlands -- Gutter sizing -- Case Study: Bee Ranch -- 10: Materials and Waste -- Material takeoffs and cost calculations.

Advanced framing -- Sheet materials -- Preliminary life cycle analysis -- LEED material calculations -- Case Study: Loblolly House -- 11: Collaboration -- Imported backgrounds -- Exporting files -- Project coordination -- Case Study: Paisano Senior Housing -- Afterword -- Bibliography and References -- Index.