Archive for January, 2010

“Employing the latest in energy management software technology, BC Hydro with the energy tracking software tracks, analyzes and reports on real-time energy consumption from the venue sites in order to see energy and green house gas savings and set benchmarks from which similar venues can compare themselves to.” The information is available online at VenueEnergyTracker.com [...]

EneryPlus is one of the most sophisticated energy analysis tools available and Revit has become somewhat of a standard for the AEC industry at least in North America and Oceania it seems like a natural fit .. See this recent post on openRevit for some in depth instructions on how to use the Revit gbXML [...]

White Box Technologies announced its intention to establish a non-profit Center for Open Source Building Energy Simulations (COSBES). White Box Technologies is an international firm pooling together significant expertise of experienced engineers, architects, building physicists, and building modelers. With offices in 4 states we bring together high levels of expertise in: Building energy simulation (EnergyPlus, [...]

This is indeed an interesting article/ slideshow. Thanks for sharing this through your ‘Life at HOK‘ blog. It’s not quite a fair comparison as the Passive House standard seems not compatible with with a lot of building types so far. Residences and schools seem to work great. The New York Times did a great graphical [...]

Here is some more fodder for environmental designers on exporting data from Revit to Ecotect Analysis:

This workshop section will develop techniques of evaluating and representing environmental forces and ecological systems on built form. Instructor: Nataly Gattegno (Future Cities Lab / CCA ECOlab) and Olivier Pennetier (Symphysis) Date: February 13-14, 2010 (10am – 5pm) Location: California College of the Arts, Graduate Center, San Francisco Campus Eligibility: Open to all design students [...]

Bringing the PassivHaus (Passive House) standard for low-energy buildings to Canada Check out the website with mailing list, resources, downloads, etc. here.

A webcast organized by gbxml.org was mentioned earlier on this blog. Now there will be a second free webcast titled “Using Green Building XML (gbXML) for Sustainable Building Design – Part II” on January 21, 2010 at 10:00 to 11:00 am PST. Presented by gbXML stakeholders, this webcast will demonstrate how tools for Building Information [...]

The need for consistent and transparent common sustainability metrics  was stressed at a specialized, technical conference organized by the Sustainable Building Alliance (SB Alliance) initiative. SB Alliance is a non-profit, non-partisan international coalition of standard setting organizations, national building research centers, and key property industry and construction sector stakeholders that is intended to accelerate the [...]

I just came across this one, even though the original context was the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen it is not out of date and very informative and entertaining: “The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol [...]





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