Archive for November, 2009
The Rocky Mountain Institute has created an online carbon assessment tool called Green Footstep that helps architects, engineers, and developers understand how much a building contributes to global warming. Green Footstep reveals the design targets required to achieve carbon neutrality, net zero site energy, and other goals, and can be used on residential and commercial [...]
“Saving energy isn’t a challenge that can wait for the future. It must be addressed today – for example, by initiatives to exchange information through generally accepted data formats like IFC and gbXML. Watch this eSeminar how a 3D BIM model created in Bentley Architecture can serve for energy analysis by sharing it via gbXML [...]
Embodied carbon has been traditionally deemed optional in carbon emissions analyses for buildings because it was estimated to be of small magnitude compared with operational carbon (WRI, Build Carbon Neutral). This presentation will look at likely future scenarios and show how, in the pursuit of zero-carbon buildings by ever-reducing operational emissions, embodied carbon is likely [...]
Here is some more insight into using SketchUp for Building Performance Simulation These hands-on tutorials will help you, step-by-step, test drive a new set of 3D modeling and energy analysis tools: Open Studio, SketchUp and EnergyPlus. After viewing the videos, you may earn four hours of HSW Credit by taking a quiz on the peer [...]
Researchers of the Sustainable Energy Research Group have developed a tool to generate world-wide climate change weather files for use with standard building performance simulation programs. The tool (CCWorldWeatherGen) is free of charge and can be downloaded from the SERG website. The climate change world weather file generator (CCWorldWeatherGen) allows you to generate climate change [...]
“The previous version of the Autodesk Green Building Studio service supported weather locations mainly based on large airport sites. The 1.6 million virtual weather locations now supported by the service are located no more than 8.8 miles (14 km) from any given project location covered by the new data set. The new virtual weather locations [...]
Tyson Ibele’s amazing free script will model and create complete cities, and even creates V-Ray Proxies and materials automatically. Main Features: Wide variety of structural controls. Automated detail creation for things like windows, ledges, railings, balconies, etc. Ability to generate a series of randomized buildings along a spline path. Combined meshes can be turned into [...]
Hot on the heels of the SketchUp 7.1 launch a couple of weeks ago, we’re pleased to announce the release of the latest addition to our 3D family: Google Building Maker is a super-specialized, online tool for creating buildings specifically for Google Earth. Building Maker lets you choose a building to model by looking at [...]
