IDA Indoor Climate and Energy BIM Interoperability for Thermal Simulation
IDA ICE can import all common 2D and 3D CAD files. It supports IFC BIM models, generated by, e.g. ArchiCAD, Revit, AutoCAD ADT, MagiCAD and many other tools. Click here to see the video ..
Minergie Calculations from the BIM Model with Lesosai
Lesosai 7.1 imports gbXML, which can be generated Revit, Sketchup (with Plugin) und Archicad (with Plugin). Lesosai is software for the certification and thermal balance calculation of buildings containing one or more heated or cooled zones. It is designed primarily for building engineers, HVAC engineers and architects.. http://www.lesosai.com
What’s New in Dynamo Visual Programming for Revit and Vasari
In this recent Vasari Talk session Autodesk’s Zachary Kron discusses the latest release of Dynamo Visual Programming for Revit and Vasari. He demonstrates the latest improvements to the user interface, new node functionalities, and walk through some of the new sample files. He will also discuss the goals of the project and how users can...
Revit Energy Analysis with Green Building Studio’s New Potential Energy Savings Chart
The Potential Energy Savings chart is a cutting edge new feature that helps design teams understand the features of a building’s design, construction, and systems that can save the most energy. It is designed to help users focus the team’s valuable efforts only on the areas that matter most for reducing energy use. Read more...
Simergy – 3rd Public Beta Released
Simergy is a Free Graphical User Interface enabling EnergyPlus to be used more easily and effectively. Go to http://simergy-beta.lbl.gov/ to find out more .. See also the recently posted webinar on the gbXML integration for this tool.
DesignBuilder v3.2 Released
The release of DesignBuilder v3.2 featuring several major enhancements: · EnergyPlus v7.2 is the main simulation engine · Detailed HVAC templates allow fully connected systems to be loaded to the model · ASHRAE 90.1 Appendix G constructions and outline baseline HVAC systems included · Improved Simple HVAC simulations with options for humidity control, heat recovery...
IBPSA-USA NYC Presents: EnergyPlus GUI, COMFEN and N++
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...
New List of Tools for Building Optimization on Pinterest
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/
New Web Resource for Weather Data for Energy Calculations
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...
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