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Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) today launched a plug-in to Google SketchUp. This plug-in links directly to IES’s free VE-Ware tool which accurately determines the Yearly Energy Consumption and associated Carbon Dioxide Emissions for any building, in any part of the world.
How to determine a buildings Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions for free in 5 easy [...]
Watch this beautiful visualisation of an acoustic analysis inside a torus knot done in Ecotect.
Dr. Andrew J. Marsh, the principal author behind Ecotect comments on a future Mac OS X compilation of the software in the Autodesk Ecotect discussion forum:
Basically I’d love to do a Mac version of ECOTECT… I’ll need to go entirely OpenGL in v6.0 of ECOTECT. This will break the link with GDI and make both [...]
Autodesk Ecotect Solar Analysis data can be imported into ParaCloud Modeler and converted as solar numeric matrix. The matrix data can be used as a population matrix or as driving parameters values.
On the ParaCloud Community Blog you can find a tutorial that covers the following subjects:
Importing surface from ParaCloud into Ecotect
Exporting Ecotect solar calculation data [...]
The McKinsey for Vattenfall Report “A Cost Curve for Greenhouse Gas Reduction” investigates popular greenhouse gas reduction strategies and their related costs. Almost a quarter of possible emission reductions would result from measures that carry no net life cycle cost – in effect, they come free of charge. Most of those measures are related to [...]
Dr. Ken Yeang is a prolific Malaysian architect and writer best known for developing environmental design solutions for high-rise buildings. As a principle of T.R. Hamzah & Yeang in Kuala Lumpur, he pioneered the passive low-energy design of skyscrapers, what he has called “bioclimatic” design. In 2005 Yeang became a director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, [...]
Learn about Composition and Cameras, Modeling, Lighting, Rendering and Post and find out how Neoscape produced their well known Loft 5 project (Video from YouTube).
Tutorials
The following tutorials give insight into techniqes using AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp 3ds Max and V-Ray.
See the tutorials at en.9jcg.com:
Exterior Scenes Part 1 - Composition & Cameras
Exterior Scenes Part 2 - Modeling [...]
Over the next 21 months, 3TIER plans to continue to map the world for wind and solar resources, country by country, based upon a priority order that takes into account such issues as renewable energy policies, availability of renewable energy resource and economic status.
Every quarter through 2010, 3TIER will release a series of resource maps [...]
If Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit and 3ds Max are part of your work flow you will find some great video tutorials on this website: designreform.net
These direct links lead you to two of many excellent screencasts:
Learn how to link complex organic geometry that was modeled in Rhino into Revit as a mass element
This one shows us how [...]
Autodesk anounced the availability of Ecotect 5.60 for purchase online. It almost doubled in price compared to previous versions.
Read the news at the Autodesk/Square One website
