VE 2012 Feature Pack 2 Hotfix 1 Now Available for Download
A new hotfix for VE 2012 Feature Pack 2 is now available from the IES Download Centre.
Symposium on Sustainable Urban Design – Case Studies and Design Workflows
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...
SFU Carbon Talks Dialogue – 2 Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
Simon Fraser University Carbon Talks was hosting a dialogue with Cole Roberts, acclaimed author of “2 Degrees: The Built Environment and our Changing Climate” last month. Here is the video: Cole Roberts leads the energy and resource sustainability business in Arup’s San Francisco office. Cole’s experience ranges from climate positive engineering and sustainability consulting to...
Living Proof
A video story of the Bullitt Center, which is designed to be the “greenest commercial building in the world”. Comment on Vimeo: Impressive that the City of Seattle created a demonstration code to allow this innovative project to blaze trails! “The Bullitt Center, previously the Cascadia Center, is a commercial office building under development in...
Vasari Talk 23 – The Work of Kohn Pedersen Fox
Ian Atkins and Charlie Portelli of Kohn Pedersen Fox discuss various case studies of KPF Projects with a focus on the use of parametric data driven and computational design processes.
Daylighting Analysis with DAYSIM and Ecotect
Did you ever wanted to go beyond the Point in Time daylight simulation possible with the tandem of Radiance and Ecotect and simulate the Daylight Autonomy of a space over the course of a year then you might be interested in the following tutorials from the AutodeskEcoWorkshop YouTube channel. DAYSIM and Ecotect 1: Export Models...
Lisa Heschong – The Dynamics of Delight
Heschong received her Master of Architecture at MIT in 1978; her thesis was the basis of a book of classic essays, Thermal Delight in Architecture. She spent the next 15 years specializing in passive solar design before founding the Heschong Mahone Group in 1993, based in Sacramento. She has since been focusing on daylight, a...
What comes First, Form or Performance? Interview with Stefan Behnisch
Integrated design ultimately must define both the form and the expected performance of a green building. In this interview, excerpted from Jerry Yudelson’s new book “The World’s Greenest Buildings” German architect Stefan Behnisch talks about how to integrate them: We have now the new discipline of designing for a more sustainable built environment, which requires...
Ecological Urbanism App
The Ecological Urbanism app adapts content from the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s book of the same name for a tablet. Much more than an ebook, it’s an entirely new way of looking at the information interactively. With the majority of the world’s population expected to live in cities by the year 2050, Ecological Urbanism...
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