The Sustainable Design Toolbox

World Green Building Week 2011

 
This week is World Green Building Week with numerous events taking place around the Globe. Be sure to check out the World Green Building Council list for events taking place in your region:

WGBC Events

Project Vasari 2.1 available

Bit late to the party posting about this, but last week Project Vasari 2.1 was released to Autodesk Labs. You can download it from here:

Project Vasari 2.1

This version brings more cool stuff from Ecotect with the inclusion of the Wind Tunnel:

 

Zach Kron has a great blog post on this functionality here:

Buildz Ecotect Wind Tunnel Post 

Also improved with this release is the automatic zoning of the energy model. Previously zones were divided based on points of the compass, now they are divided based on the building geometry - which overcomes the sometimes rather odd divisions you got before:

Finally check out the parameters slider add-in that works with 2.1, more details here:

Parameters Sliders