Posts Tagged ‘Simulation’
Squint/Opera is a film and media production studio operating within the film and architectural industry.
Using a unique visual language, the company channels and translates the creative investigations of the architectural team on social and environmental impacts into a medium that everyone, from the schoolchild to the Mayor, can understand.
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Next Limit Technologies (Madrid, Spain) announced it’s next iteration of Maxwell Render. The manual as well as several plugins for integration into CAD and 3D design applications were updated too.
The Physical Sky system in Maxwell Render 1.7 uses an entirely new approach and has been greatly enhanced adding more parameters to control the look of [...]
Autodesk updated the recently acquired Green Building Studio. This web service integrates sophisticated engineer’s tools with architectural design software and enables architects to evaluate the energy use of their designs.
Part of the update is a tighter integration with the 2009 line of the Revit platform. The external application was added to the Tool pull down [...]
During my research for a building analysis solution suitable for early design phases I came across these two quite comprehensive abstracts about Ecotect. I like Ecotect for that it can give you that kind of graphic output that is so important to communicate this rather intangible information to a client. As well I believe [...]
After checking the website over and over for the last couple of weeks and eagerly awaiting a new version to test the gbxml implementation it’s back again.
Square One research develops leading-edge simulation and analysis solutions for the design of high-performance and climate-responsive buildings. The company was incorporated in 2000 to focus on promoting and supporting [...]
Greenspace’s Demeter plugin expands the benefits of using Google Sketchup for early stage building design. Demeter provides Google’s Sketchup with the ability to energy analyse a building model within seconds. Demeter also allows for the importing and exporting of the industry standard file format, gbXML, allowing models from many different sources to be viewed, edited [...]
