Archive for November, 2010
The WeaTran software, which is available free-of-charge through the University of Dayton via the link below reads TMY and EPW files and translates the data to other useful formats. In addition, to help summarize a climate graphically, it displays a psychrometric chart of monthly temp and humidity data as well as a time-series chart of [...]
DView displays hourly time series data in a variety of formats. Mistaya engineering developed DView for NREL to help with the visual analysis of all kinds of hourly time series data, with a particular emphasis on “typical meteorological year” data. DView opens text files and Excel files containing any type of hourly data, and it [...]
BIG project in Ørestad with interesting animation : The 8-House is located in Ørestad on the southern edge of Copenhagen. 8-House offers homes for people in all of life’s stages: the young and the old, singles, families that grow and families that become smaller. Instead of dividing the different functions of the building – for [...]
Another plugin that could make SketchUP into an environmental analysis tool just like Ecotect: 1001Shadows. 1001Shadows is a plugin for Google Sketchup that generates a series of shadow outlines from a start time to end time with user defined intervals. Simple operation – set the latitude, start-end time, interval and generate the shadow profiles Cross [...]
This is a video of the new Whistler’s first Passive House, built and showcased for the 2010 Winter Olympics. What is a Passive House? It’s an ultra-low energy building designed to showcase cutting edge energy efficient construction. A comfortable interior climate can be maintained without heading and cooling systems. For more information on Passive House [...]
This interview with the authors of ‘The Green Studio Handbook’ Alison Kwok, Professor of Architecture, University of Oregon, and Walter Grondzik, Professor of Architecture, Ball State University was recently posted on the betterbricks blog .. Find more about The Green Studio Handbook HERE.
This is one of the most comprehensible abstracts on Energy Modeling and LEED a came across so far: Energy Modeling, ASHRAE 90.1 and LEED (By Andrew J. Kamnik) “The most challenging prerequisite in the LEED for New Construction certification process is the Energy and Atmosphere Prerequisite 2: Minimum Energy Performance. Any project seeking Certified, Silver, [...]
Just tried this offer from the City of Vancovuer this weekend at the Olympic Village. You can listen to those recordings via your phone (call 604.673.8150 when you are standing in front of one of the buildings) or you can listen to it online on the Green Building Audio Tours website .. Green building audio [...]
