Archive for the 'Building Performance Analysis' Category
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 [...]
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
The provincial government announced today it will invest $5 million in a program aimed at boosting solar water heating more than sixfold to 3,000 roofs across the province by 2010.
(read full article on househunting.ca)
Find a tutorial on using Demeter and SketchUp to get an energy analysis report and some interesting discussion on the Greenspace Research forum.
Climate change has emerged as the dominant environmental concern of our times, and buildings, as a sector of the economy, represent the most cost-effective opportunity for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Estimating the carbon footprint of a building can be quite simple or enormously complex, depending on what one needs the estimate to do. The simple [...]
For an average office building in the U.S., 30% more energy is expended by workers getting to and from the building than the building itself uses. For an average office building built to modern energy codes, more than twice as much energy is used by commuters than by the building itself. This data suggests that [...]
LEED 2009 is currently in the Comment Process. If the process goes as planned , the final version of LEED 2009 will be presented at the GreenBuild Conference and Expo in Boston November 19-21 2008 and launched in January 2009.
Curious about the changes?
See the
LEED 2009 Vision & Executive Summary (pdf).
See and listen to a 26minutes [...]
