建设可持续社区的过程需要许多利益相关者之间的仔细协调，包括总规划师、能源规划师和建筑设计师。在美国内部。在美国国防部，这些利益相关者在不同的细节层次上工作，使用不同的规划视野，这可能会导致整个社区的次优决策。本文描述了一种新的方法，使能源规划过程和工具能够在涉及数千栋建筑的总体规划水平与涉及单个建筑的设施设计水平之间平滑扩展。 提出了能源和可持续性叠加的概念以及设计目标的使用。使用net zero planner工具提供了在美国陆军设施进行的研究中的示例。引文:伊利诺伊州芝加哥ASHRAE交易——第121卷第1部分

The process of building sustainable communities requires careful coordination between a number of stakeholders, including master planners, energy planners, and building designers.Within theU.S. Department of Defense, these stakeholders work at differing levels of detail and use different planning horizons, which may lead to suboptimimal decisions for the community as a whole. This paper describes a new approach to adapt energy planning processes and tools to scale smoothly between the master planning level, involving thousands of buildings, to the facility design level, involving single buildings. The concept of an energy and sustainability overlay and use of design targets is presented. Examples are provided using the net zero planner tool from studies performed at a U.S. Army installations.