The Sustainable Design Toolbox

New Whitepaper - Improving Commercial Building Performance

 
  
  
Aimed at commercial building owners, a new whitepaper has become available outlining the benefits of Building Information Modelling enabled Sustainable Design.

You can download it from here:

Improving Commercial Building Performance Whitepaper

Swedish Project using BREEAM

My Swedish colleague Jerker made me aware that the redevelopment of Malmo's Western Harbour is going to be certified using BREEAM Communities. Apparently this is the first development in the Nordics to do. It is interesting to see how the UK's BRE Environmental Assessment Method is being adapted and adopted for use in other countries.

The Swedish news article can be read here (you can use Google Translate if like me you have no clue what it says):

Redevelopment of Malmo Western Harbour

Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011

As I mentioned when the Revit 2011 products were recently launched, one of the most exciting pieces of new functionality from a building performance analysis perspective is the introduction of the Analysis Visualisation Framework, allowing results to be displayed in the Revit graphics window.

You can now see this in action with the release of the Solar Radiation Technology Preview available from the Autodesk Labs Site:

Revit 2011 Solar Radiation Technology Preview

Definitely worth grabbing. Please remember to feed back your thoughts to the Labs Team.

Now you will be able to see the use for the Analysis Display Styles Dialog that may have intrigued you:

Laser Scanning Article by _space Architects

 

Last week at one of our UK reseller Architecture user forums, I met up with James Austin of the Newcastle based architects _space. He has recently been investigating the use of laser scanning for BIM and has put together an interesting article you can read on his 'Virtually an Architect' blog:

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