Archive for June, 2010
A study recently presented at the CleanMed Conference in Baltimore suggests that Hospital in the Pacific Northwest climate could cut back their energy intensity by up to 60% with little cost implications. This report shall be a tool for designers and owners for moving energy efficiency goals forward in project teams working in similar climate [...]
September 21 – 22, 2010, Berlin The lifecycle performance of buildings is a key issue in reaching the global target on CO2 reduction in the 21st century. Energy efficiency, climate change, facilities for production and logistics, green cities or a healthy working environment – no matter where you look: the effective use of innovative building [...]
The USC School of Architecture (Prof. Karen Kensek) is hosting the Fourth Annual USC Symposium on Building Information Modeling + Analytics on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010. Building on the success of previous years’ symposiums on BIM and Sustainable Design and BIM + Construction and Fabrication, there will be a one-day event with 12 speakers, each [...]
A very informative presentation that helps to get a grip on the energy metrics: “If we are to make a big change in the way energy is produced and consumed we need an “Energy Literacy” that gives people a tangible sense of their energy consumption, and of what it takes to meet that. This talk [...]
New Model Transfer, Bio-Climatic, and Advanced Thermal, HVAC and Bulk Airflow Features + 20% off SketchUp Pro and 60% off VE Toolkits (see bottom of post) Last week IES released version 6.1 of its <Virtual Environment> software suite. The new functionality in conjunction with these great offers described below should help us architects to get [...]
This Version 5.0 adds a number of new features to those in the prior version of Climate Consultant 4 including three additional Comfort Models: ASHARE Handbook 2005, ASHRAE Standard 55, and Adaptive Comfort. It now comes with climate data for all of California’s 16 climate zones, but climate data is also available for over two [...]
Very interesting test with the Solar Radiation Technology Preview plug-in for Revit 2011: “There’s been a Solar Radiation “Technology Preview” plug-in for Revit available up on Autodesk Labs for a while now. I’ve been curious about it, but haven’t had an idea to apply to it till now. So I mixed up a little form [...]
See this tutorial from Revit Clinic on how to create or modify an analysis display style using the recently released Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011. Click here to go to the tutorial .. See as well this overview:
Just stumbled across this interesting Ecotect tutorial: “One of the problems with the weather files that are bundled with Ecotect is that they are usually out-dated. Also, most of the weather stations are city airports which do not reflect the true weather conditions that might be prevailing on your site. This is the reason why [...]
