Archive for the 'Design' 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
If you missed the talk on Passivhaus design at the Lighthouse Sustainable Building Centre by Dr. Guido Wimmers, don’t worry Radio Ecoshock recorded the whole session.
Find more podcasts on climate change, oceans, forests, pollution, and peace at the The Radio Ecoshock Show.
“SketchUp and Green Design” - a video from Google SketchUp 3D Basecamp conference in Mountain View, California. You will see how to use Sketchup with additional tools like Chhaya, Greenfoot, SPOT, AGI32 and the Energy Design plugin (as featured in an earlier post) to explore green building design opportunities.
You can find more 3D Basecamp session [...]
Autodesk went on a green shopping spree the last couple of month: After announcing the full aquisition of Green Building Studio now the acquisition of Ecotect was a surprise.
I hope all the resources behind Autodesk help leapfrogging innovation
in the building analysis and simulation field and it would be great if some of those items would [...]
Ecotect 5.6 will be a free update for existing customers. You can download the Release Candidate on the Square One website as a fully functional trial (expires August 15, 2008).
Some of the new features in this release include:
Import and export gbXML model files (schema 0.35).
Fully VISTA compatible.
A new wizard-based approach to the creation of common [...]
