Archive for April, 2010
With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. This tool easily allows data to [...]
Felix, a renderer developed in partnership with Next Limit technologies (creaors of the Maxwell Renderer), aims to bring renderfarm power to everyone via the Cloud. Similar in concept to vSwarm, you buy “credits” and then submit your job to be rendered on 40 to 160 cores in the cloud. Go to felixrender to find out [...]
This is an interesting new plugin for SketchUp geared towards urban and architectural air flow studies: Khamsin is a plugin extension of Google Sketchup which will aim to provide an integrated environment to conduct CFD analysis. Khamsin currently interacts with the existing third-party software Gmsh and OpenFVM for meshing, analysis and post-processing purposes. The long [...]
This exhibition displays and highlights designs and projects by the Stuttgard-based Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar KlimaEngineering. “Behnisch Architekten and Transsolar Klimaengineering have been collaborating for many years in pursuit of an environmentally responsive architecture. Works extend from architectural competitions to large-scale realized projects both in Germany and abroad. Current common projects include Harvard’s Allston Science [...]
In association with the IBPSA SimBuild 2010 conference in August an Energy Analysis Competition has been announced. The Energy Analysis Competition is open to both students and professionals. The competition will test participants’ ability to perform a preliminary energy analysis of a school building in Manhattan. The competition guidelines and building description package on the [...]
In conjunction with 4DTechnologies/CADLearning, AUGI announced the following lessons on Ecotect 2010 that are now available for free from the AUGI website: Course overview and outline Important Points Layers and Zones Objects and Nodes Element Types Object Relationships Viewing the Model Click here to visit the AUGI e-Learning Program page, and view these lessons (login [...]
Arup’s take on achieving lower carbon targets in the built environment. Nice graphics anyways .. Via GreenArchiTEXT ..
“Previously only available as a Subscription Benefit with Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, Revit Architecture & Revit MEP 2011 Subscription customers will now also be able to access Green Building Studio too. This is something many customers have been asking me for over the last year and it is great to see it has now happened.” Via [...]
