Archive for the 'Building Performance Analysis' Category
Sustainable, or green design, are buzzwords of contemporary architecture. For reasons that vary from meeting energy codes, managing increasing fuel costs, reducing waste, expression of personal values, or the desire for self-sufficiency, more people are thinking green. How can Building Information Modeling (BIM) help to design better “green buildings”?
Matthew W. Brewster, founder of AEC software [...]
“With the development of our plug-in to Google SketchUp and the expansion of our products to include more early design stage tools aimed at architects, interoperability with Macs is becoming increasingly important to our customers” commented Dr Don McLean, Founder and Managing Director of IES. “I’m delighted that the <Virtual Environment> has now been successfully [...]
Autodesk developed a workflow using Autodesk software (ImageModeler, Revit Architecture, Green Building Studio) for rapid energy modeling that leapfrogs traditional energy modeling and building audit techniques. Rapid energy modeling is a streamlined process that involves moving rapidly—and with minimal data—from image capture of building exteriors through simplified simulation to building energy analysis. To study the [...]
The Rocky Mountain Institute has created an online carbon assessment tool called Green Footstep that helps architects, engineers, and developers understand how much a building contributes to global warming.
Green Footstep reveals the design targets required to achieve carbon neutrality, net zero site energy, and other goals, and can be used on residential and commercial new [...]
“Saving energy isn’t a challenge that can wait for the future. It must be addressed today – for example, by initiatives to exchange information through generally accepted data formats like IFC and gbXML.
Watch this eSeminar how a 3D BIM model created in Bentley Architecture can serve for energy analysis by sharing it via gbXML for [...]
Embodied carbon has been traditionally deemed optional in carbon emissions analyses for buildings because it was estimated to be of small magnitude compared with operational carbon (WRI, Build Carbon Neutral). This presentation will look at likely future scenarios and show how, in the pursuit of zero-carbon buildings by ever-reducing operational emissions, embodied carbon is likely [...]
Here is some more insight into using SketchUp for Building Performance Simulation
These hands-on tutorials will help you, step-by-step, test drive a new set of 3D modeling and energy analysis tools: Open Studio, SketchUp and EnergyPlus. After viewing the videos, you may earn four hours of HSW Credit by taking a quiz on the peer learning [...]
Researchers of the Sustainable Energy Research Group have developed a tool to generate world-wide climate change weather files for use with standard building performance simulation programs. The tool (CCWorldWeatherGen) is free of charge and can be downloaded from the SERG website.
The climate change world weather file generator (CCWorldWeatherGen) allows you to generate climate change weather [...]
“The previous version of the Autodesk Green Building Studio service supported weather locations mainly based on large airport sites. The 1.6 million virtual weather locations now supported by the service are located no more [...]
