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Tutorial videos
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Tutorial videos
- Video: Introduction to GreenDesk for Green Star Design & As Built
- Video: Getting Started with the GreenDesk for Green Star Design & As Built TRIAL for select Materials credits
- Video: Mini-tutorial: Understanding login users and role-based access: Case: A ‘concrete’ user in GreenDesk for Green Star
- Video: Mini-tutorial: Terminology: Login User vs. Author (user profile) vs. Actor (human resource role)
- Video: Mini-tutorial: How to target Credit points
- Video: Mini-tutorial: How to allocate Activities (tasks) to Actors (human resource roles) for project management
- Video: Full tutorial: - Credit Criteria Web Worksheets and Submission Forms - Case: GBCA Green Star Design and As Built - Concrete
Tutorial trails
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Tutorial trails
- The UNDEF symbol: "Please feed me, I'm undefined (null)"
- Mini tutorial: HOWTO create a new GreenDesk project for Green Star Design & As Built
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Tutorial: Green Star Design & As Built: Responsible Building Materials - Timber
- Access the RBM Timber Products credit from the RBM Timber worksheet via the Green Star menu
- Or access the RBM Timber credit via the categories menu bar and its credit group and parent credit
- Or access the RBM Timber credit by searching from the Credits tracking table
- Target the credit using the auto-targeting button
- The worksheet has no data yet, in demo projects you can create demo data
- RBM Timber products table
- Add a new timber Block row
- Providing missing values using row-editing (multiple-sweep example)
- Inspecting the Credit Criteria test failure
- Expert system test failure in an Activity view page
- Use row-editing in Worksheet tables to adjust the model data to meet the Credit Criteria
- Complete the activity using auto-completion
- Document compliance is not yet met
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Tutorial: Green Star Design & As Built: Steel credits worksheets in GreenDesk
- How to access the GreenDesk steel worksheets
- Inspect the steel worksheets overview and create demonstration data
- Steel manufacturers and makers
- Add another steel manufacturer/maker row and edit the row values
- How to disable Block rows
- Steel fabricators and contractors
- The steel overview table for applicability criteria
- Display options for the steel overview credit applicability criteria tables
- The easy-edit popup dialog for Steel
- Steel applicability calculation worksheet sub-table for Responsible Building Materials credit
- Structural steel worksheets overview - provide the missing 'steel-framed' answer value
- Structural steel strength criteria calculation sub-tables
- Structural steel 'Reduced mass of steel framing vs reference case'
- Structural steel, Responsible Building Materials credit
- Enter the missing Total Contract Value then save
- The reinforcing steel worksheets
- Reduce the mass of reinforcing steel using design initiative(s)
- Uploading the exported Credit Submission Form as a Compliance Document
- Reduce the mass of reinforcing fabricated steel using optimal fabrication
- Responsible Building Materials: Reinforcing Steel: concrete-framed buildings (as contradiction test case)
- How the Expert System catches a contradiction
- Working through targeting and completion of the steel credits
- Credit: Reduced Mass of Steel Framing (Steel framed building) - targeting
- Credit: Reduced Mass of Steel Framing (Steel framed building) - Activity status and completion
- Activity: Steel-framing: Option: Use high strength steel to reduce the mass of steel framing used when compared to standard practice
- Examining document compliance - Credit for Reduced Mass of Steel Framing (Steel framed building)
- Examining Document Compliance and Compliance Conditions - Submission Credit - Life Cycle Impacts - Steel
- Navigating to the Credit Submission Form for Life Cycle Impacts - Steel
- Getting started with the Credit Submission Form for Life Cycle Impacts - Steel
- Credit Submission Form for Life Cycle Impacts - Steel - completed (active mode)
- Credit Submission Form for Life Cycle Impacts - Steel - completed (print mode)
- Conclusion to the Steel worksheets tutorial
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Tutorial: Green Star Design & As Built: Responsible Building Materials - Permanent Formwork, Pipes, Flooring, Blinds and Cables
- Flowchart for the Responsible Building Materials credit for PVC-related products
- Access the PVC credit from the PVC worksheet via the Green Star menu
- Or access the PVC credit via the categories menu bar and its credit group and parent credit
- Or access the PVC credit by searching from the Credits tracking table
- Target the credit using the auto-targeting button
- The worksheet has no data yet, in demo projects you can create demo data
- PVC-related product manufacturers and suppliers table
- The credit criteria calculation requires the Total Project Contract Value
- Display Options for showing how Best Practice was achieved
- Only permanent Formwork items are included
- Add an additional PVC-related product, a Pipe type
- Impact on the credit criteria calculations
- Disable the "culprit" pipe product Block
- The Activity must be marked as 'completed' before it is fully 'accepted'
- Document compliance is not yet met
- The PVC-related portion of the Credit Submission Form
- Attach the exported Credit Submission Form to the sub-credit to meet document compliance
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Tutorial: Green Star Design & As Built: Life Cycle Impacts - Structural Timber
- Access the LCI Structural Timber credit from the LCI Structural Timber worksheet via the Green Star menu
- Or access the LCI Structural Timber credit via the categories menu bar and its credit group
- Or access the LCI Structural Timber credit by searching from the Credits tracking table
- For this credit, auto-targeting is not available and the credit is deemed not applicable (so far)
- Populating the worksheet for LCI Structural Timber
- Enter the Gross Floor Area with a Description and an External Link
- Choosing a compliance option for the Minimum Requirement Credit (via the worksheet)
- Choose one or more optional-but-recommended documents as relevant to meet the minimum requirement (via the worksheet)
- The Reduced Embodied Impacts Credit criteria (in the worksheet)
- Credit and Activity overview of the worksheet - not yet targeted, not yet completed
- Targeting the minimum requirement Credit and completing the Activity option
- Inspecting the compliance documents for the minimum requirement credit
- Document compliance for the impacts credit with optional-but-recommended documents
- Structural Timber worksheet - Life Cycle Impacts - The Credit Submission Form
- Submission: Credit: 19B.4: Life Cycle Impacts - Structural Timber - Print Mode export
- Submission: Credit: 19B.4: Life Cycle Impacts - Structural Timber - final upload
- Target and complete the Structural Timber Reduced Embodied Impacts credit and activity
- The Life Cycle Impacts - Structural Timber submission credit: assign an Author (user profile)
- Mini-tutorial: How to create and assign a Submission Author in GreenDesk
GreenDesk Core Classes
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GreenDesk Core Classes
- Activity (task)
- Actor (human resource role)
- AnswerValue
- Attachment
- Author (user profile)
- Block
- Category
- Certification
- Constraint
- Credit
- CreditGroup
- CreditSheet
- Document
- Element
- FloatQuantity
- Listel (listing/grouping element)
- Login User
- Organisation
- Project
- Quantity
- Regulation or Code
- Scheme
- Standard
- Tag
- TagSet
- TextValue
- User Role (access role)
- Value
- Worksheet
Glossary
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Glossary
- "Easy-edit" (peudo-popup dialog) editing
- Accordion tab (accordion panel)
- Active Mode
- Auto-completion of activities
- Auto-targeting of credits
- Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Building Project Model
- Candidate Block
- Categories Menu Bar
- Compliance Document
- Constraint Assertion Mode
- Credit Applicability Criteria
- Credit Criteria
- Credit Submission Form
- Credit Submission Template
- Credit quick-links
- Dashboard/Launchpad
- Demo Mode Project
- Derived value
- Display Option
- Document Compliance Conditions
- Element Class
- Enabled/Disabled/Candidate blocks
- Expert System
- Expert System Test
- Expertise Level Display Modes
- External link
- Extra Help Mode
- Frequently Used Values
- GBCA Credit Submission Template
- GBCA Green Star "Rating Tool"
- GBCA Green Star
- GBCA Green Star Submission Guidelines
- Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA)
- Green Star menu
- GreenDesk TRIAL MODE
- Model Class
- Optional-But-Recommended Document
- Override Mode
- Page range (section range) editing
- Points Logic
- Print Mode
- Progressive Form Completion
- Project Chooser
- Project Model Database
- Project Registration Form
- Recent elements view
- Relevant Document
- Return-on-save editing
- Row-addition (adding a Block to a worksheet table)
- Row-editing
- Search table
- Submission Author
- Submission Credit
- Toolbar (sidebar)
- UNDEF - Indication of a 'null' or undefined value
- Worksheet tab
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