Archive for March, 2009
The Construction Carbon Calculator estimates embodied carbon. Embodied carbon is the carbon released when a product is manufactured, shipped to a project site and installed. This calculator looks at an entire project, and takes into account the site disturbance, landscape and ecosystem installation or restoration, building size and base materials of construction. It does this [...]
Dave Fano at DesignReForm has released great video tutorials which introduce the new mass environment in Revit 2010, check it out …
SunTools, a new Plugin for SketchUp is available now. Plug-in Features: SunPATH: visualization (month and year) SunPOS: Sun Position for a date and time SunVIEW: Axonometric views from the Sun SunPENETRATION: Analyze Sun Penetration/Access in any specific analysis point. Several features are work in progress or yet to be implemented. I think this is a [...]
Autodesk announced it has designated Vancouver as the third pilot city of its Digital Cities initiative. A Digital City provides a way for the public, city government, construction and business communities to combine mapping, building, civil engineering, and utility information into an accurate city model that can be used to simulate the future impact of [...]
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that LEED 2009 (including the new LEED Online) will launch officially on April 27, 2009. The same date will see the transition of LEED project registration and certification to the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI), the third party that also administers the LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) [...]
This does not replace big picture understanding but it seems to be a good tool that guides you with a wizard-style user interface step by step through sustainable design principles and technologies for every phase of the project life cycle – whether new construction or renovation. Autodesk has published this guide for all to read [...]
U.S. and Canadian Building Teams that fail to figure out how to use the kinds of technologies and innovative design approaches already in place in Europe are going to fall behind competitors who do. By Jerry Yudelson, PE, MBA, LEED AP Read full article: Building Design and Construction
This tool from Microsoft called Image Composite Editor lately caught my attention. It is a free panorama sticher that does not need any information about the camera specs and the order of the images. Just drag your photographs taken from a single camera location to create a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at [...]
Hear Andrew Marsh, senior product manager for sustainable design, Autodesk Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC) Solutions, respond to the following questions: What is Ecotect? How long has Ecotect been around? How does Ecotect fit in with other software Autodesk offers? What trends do you see in the use of analysis tools in the sustainable building [...]
This video was posted on Inside the Factory. It is the official version of the UI video preview. See as well UI preview video posted before. It does a good job of explaining the new Revit user interface and highlighting the new functionality.
