Archive for the 'Learning' Category
Passivhaus Schools
The Route to Low Energy Schools in the UK?
11 December 2009 | RIBA, London
This very succesful one-day conference explored how the German low energy Passivhaus standard could provide a solution to achieving low energy buildings and improved air quality in UK schools.
Click on “Conferences” in the aecb.net menu, or go straight to http://www.aecb.net/phschools2009.php. to [...]
Here is a handy sliding metric/US unit conversion tool for thermal performance units as well as ventilation, distances, areas, volumes and currencies amongst others.
This design tool on the Passive House Institute US website is courtesy of Wolfgang Moeller.
sdb consulting is offering two two-hour webinars on early design modeling and performance simulation using Revit and Ecotect. This is great news, more and more training and documentation appears on the Ecotect software following the aquisistion by Autodesk.
Nov 13 @ 10AM PST – Integrating: Revit with Ecotect – 2 hours
Nov 23 @ 10AM PST – [...]
Learn about climate change in this Google Earth introductory tour narrated by Al Gore, the first in a series of Google Earth tours leading up to the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen in December. For more climate change tours, visit http://www.google.com/cop15
In order to understand more about what the human impact of [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
I recommend seeing this archived webcast “Using Green Building XML for Sustainable Building Design”. Members of the gbXML advisory board demonstrated how tools for Building Information Modeling (BIM) can integrate with various analysis software, using the interoperability of gbXML to help create more sustainable building designs. Presentations and product demos included the following:
Autodesk Revit Architecture [...]
