Presentation 1 Title: EnergyPlus for Early Design and Single Zone Studies; David Fannon AIA, Senior Associate, Senior High Performance Specialist, Syska Hennessy Group, Inc. Description: This talk focuses on using COMFEN to run simplified EnergyPlus models which inform early design-decisions and perform simple single-zone studies quickly and relatively inexpensively. Using examples from recent projects, we...
This is a new and interesting compilation of tools and methods to optimize buildings according to energy, daylight and thermal comfort. Even this blog made it on to the list. Thank you Max .. Follow this link or click on the image below to get there: http://pinterest.com/bengtdahlgren/building-optimization/
White Box Technologies announced the launch of WBT Weather Data for Energy Calculations, a web site providing instant Web access to typical year and historical year weather files for thousands of locations around the world created from recorded weather data going back as far as 30 years to as recent as the past week. This...
This looks really helpful especially for creating entourage ..
Trelligence Affinity 8 is now available for use. This new release focuses on enhancements to the Affinity for Revit plug-in, as well as general performance and graphics improvements in the Affinity Desktop. Read more on the Trelligence site: http://trelligence.com/Affinity8.php
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released an updated version of EnergyPlus simulation software for modeling heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other building energy flows. Additionally, a new version of OpenStudio Legacy Plug-in for Trimble SketchUp is available, which makes it possible to perform EnergyPlus simulations using Sketchup’s user-friendly 3-D drawing interface. Visit www.energyplus.gov...
A new hotfix for VE 2012 Feature Pack 2 is now available from the IES Download Centre.
This seems to be a great event with speakerst like Matthias Adele Santos (MIT), Rudolf (Transsolar), Christoph Reinhart (MIT), Matt Noblett (Benisch Architekten). Unfortuantely I won’t be able to go: Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design – Case Studies and Design Workflows Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 6 2013 Attendance is free if you RSVP by...
The world is barreling down a path to heat up by 4 degrees at the end of the century if the global community fails to act on climate change, triggering a cascade of cataclysmic changes that include extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks and a sea-level rise affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to...
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