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Autodesk Green Building Studio Adds More Than a Million Global Weather Locations
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“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 than 8.8 miles (14 km) from any given project location covered by ...9 hours ago -
Training Classes for Revit and Ecotect Integration Announced
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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 – ...1 week ago -
Connecting ArchiCAD and IES via gbXML
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This video demonstrates the connection from ArchiCAD to IES via gbXML: Read more on connecting ArchiCAD and IES on the IES website ..1 week ago -
IES VE Ware 6.0 Overview
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These are overviews of VE-Ware that shows you how to access it, pull reports and how to use in everyday scenarios from within SketchUp and Revit.1 week ago -
Am I Certifiable?
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A technician checks the combustion efficiency and safety of a water heater—an important part of any home energy audit. I hope I’m certifiable. I’ll find out in about a year when I’ve completed all the training and taken the written and field exams to become a Building Performance Institute (BPI) certified ...1 week ago -
How to Analyze Slopes for LEED-ND
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This video demonstrates how to use geospatial slope analysis in evaluating a proposed development site against LEED for Neighborhood Development criteria dealing with protection of steep slopes:2 weeks ago -
DOE Releases New Versions of EnergyPlus and OpenStudio
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The U.S. Department of Energy has released updated versions of its popular EnergyPlus simulation software for modeling heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other building energy flows, as well as its OpenStudio plug-in for Google’s SketchUp program. Available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh ...2 weeks ago -
Buildings Gain by Putting Energy Efficiency Over Other LEED Aspects
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Building owners can get the most out of their LEED status by focusing on energy efficiency over other LEED aspects, according to research conducted by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT).CNT’s research and findings are part of the recently released Year 1 Final Report of the Regional Green Building Case ...2 weeks ago -
BIM for Design and Predesign Podcasts
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit Updated
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This experimental Revit Add-In was updated after the Revit 2010 Web Update 2 did not support the previous version. With the Soar Radiation Technology Preview Add-In for Revit Architecture and MEP you can analyze the effects of solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model. It is Ecotect ...3 weeks ago -
New York City Starts “One Year, One Thousand Green Supers” Green Building Program
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New York City plans to train one thousand superintendents on green buildings this year. City managers of commercial and high-rise residential buildings now have the chance reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city on a sky high level. Mayor Michael Bloomberg took part in the program, “ One Year, One Thousand ...4 weeks ago -
New York City Starts “One Year, One Thousand Green Supers” Green Building Program
Green Building Elements —
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New York City plans to train one thousand superintendents on green buildings this year. City managers of commercial and high-rise residential buildings now have the chance reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the city on a sky high level. Mayor Michael Bloomberg took part in the program, “ One Year, One Thousand ...4 weeks ago -
LiveEnergy (Formerly Demeter) Plugin for SketchUp
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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 ...4 weeks ago -
Ecotect Analysis Training Packages
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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 ...4 weeks ago -
Want to Learn about gbXML
bldgsim —
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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 ...4 weeks ago -
Solar Radition Technology Preview Not Compatible with Revit Service Pack 2
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The Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit is available for download from: http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ecotect/ With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for Revit, the combination of the technology preview and the service pack results in: Read more at the “It’s alive in the lab blog” …4 weeks ago
