Archive for October, 2009
Learn about climate change in this Google Earth introductory tour narrated by Al Gore, the first in a series of Google Earth tours leading up to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December. For more climate change tours, visit http://www.google.com/cop15 In order to understand more about what the human impact of high-end climate change [...]
The Subscription Advantage Pack is available for the Revit 2010 products. Go to the Subscription Center or within your product to download them if you are a subscription customer. Some of the highlights are: Additional shortcut commands A UI to control the shortcuts (hooray) no more text file editing Model lines to Detail lines and [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy has released updated versions of its popular EnergyPlus simulation software for modeling heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other building energy flows, as well as its OpenStudio plug-in for Google’s SketchUp program. Available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems, EnergyPlus 4.0 also includes two new application guides: “Energy Management System [...]
This ongoing seminar series is sponsored by the Professional Practice Committee of the AIA Orange County, and facilitated by Digital Vision Automation. The podcasts contain compelling presentations and lively panel discussion by the top BIM movers and shakers in southern California, who have been doing BIM for a long time. Session 1, held on November [...]
This experimental Revit Add-In was updated after the Revit 2010 Web Update 2 did not support the previous version. With the Soar Radiation Technology Preview Add-In for Revit Architecture and MEP you can analyze the effects of solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model. It is Ecotect technology that works directly from [...]
“A high-tech building covered on all sides with solar cells has won an international contest for the best home powered only by the sun. Team Germany, which also won in 2007, took first place in the Solar Decathlon, beating out teams from Illinois and California. At a ceremony Friday in Washington, D.C., the Department of [...]
“AIA Seattle’s partners in the AIA+2030 Professional Series, the Integrated Design Lab and Better Bricks, are offering an education series this fall (and again next spring) to provide a deeper level of understanding about the key topic of climate analysis. This course will focus on the practice of climate analysis for the purposes of designing [...]
Recognizing the need and opportunity to improve sustainable building practices, Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, in collaboration with the City of Helsinki, has launched a sustainable development design competition. The goal was to attract and identify the best team to design a large building complex on a reclaimed harbour at the western edge of Helsinkis [...]
