Archive for the 'Design' Category
This ongoing seminar series is sponsored by the Professional Practice Committee of the AIA Orange County, and facilitated by Digital Vision Automation. The podcasts contain compelling presentations and lively panel discussion by the top BIM movers and shakers in southern California, who have been doing BIM for a long time.
Session 1, held on November 13th, [...]
“A high-tech building covered on all sides with solar cells has won an international contest for the best home powered only by the sun.
Team Germany, which also won in 2007, took first place in the Solar Decathlon, beating out teams from Illinois and California.
At a ceremony Friday in Washington, D.C., the [...]
“AIA Seattle’s partners in the AIA+2030 Professional Series, the Integrated Design Lab and Better Bricks, are offering an education series this fall (and again next spring) to provide a deeper level of understanding about the key topic of climate analysis.
This course will focus on the practice of climate analysis for the purposes of designing [...]
Recognizing the need and opportunity to improve sustainable building practices, Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, in collaboration with the City of Helsinki, has launched a sustainable development design competition. The goal was to attract and identify the best team to design a large building complex on a reclaimed harbour at the western edge of Helsinkis [...]
This is an audio recording at the SFU City Program from September 24, 2009 with Guido Wimmers (Equilibrium Consulting Inc.), Dave Ramslie (Cascadia Region Green Building Council), Murray Frank (Constructive Home Solutions Inc.): “Boon or boondoggle? Building codes will allow for the construction of six-storey woodframe buildings. Is this good news for planners who want [...]
The video below demonstrates how LiveEnergy Modeller for Sketchup (formerly called Demeter) works in conjunction with the Autodesk Green Building Studio web service.
LiveEnergy Modeller is an energy analysis plugin for Google SketchUp. Based on the gbXML standard for designing resource efficient buildings and specifying associated equipment, LiveEnergy Modeller enables the building [...]
Experience UBC’s environmentally friendly green buildings on campus.
As announced at AU 2008 these training packages will help you make the most of your Ecotect Analysis software.
These html based packages contain background information, movies and step-by-step tutorials to get you started on five main areas of analysis:
Daylighting
Shading Device Design
Shadows and Reflections
Solar Radiation
Visual Impact
An Introductory Product Demonstration package is also available.
You can download the [...]
