With this blog being mothballed I wanted to mention that you can now find out Building Performance Analysis related information, news, and learning material at the Autodesk Building Performance Analysis blog run by Emile Kfouri and John Kennedy.
Access it here: Building Performance Blog
Not long to go now until Ecobuild 2012. If you are attending please drop by stand N520 and say hello.
We will be running a series of lectures in our theatre area on the stand, presented by both Autodesk technical staff, resellers, and customers such as Space, Architype and Pozzoni.
For more details see:
Look forward to seeing you there.
A new release of Autodesk Green Building Studio has gone live with some great new features, some in particular aimed at existing portfolio analysis:
Utility Building History Upload. Now you can upload the utility history of existing buildings to compare to your simulation results. In the Run List you can now view and edit utility data that is currently assigned to a project.
Historical Weather Data. Over 10 years of historical data is automatically selected for your project location. Now when you upload the billing history of your existing building, the weather data is automatically synchronised to that billing period.
Run Results Charts. New Monthly and Annual results charts allow you to quickly sort and review a large number of runs in your project.
gbXML file Upload. Now you can upload gbXML files without a desktop client.
There has also been some tidying up of the interface and one nice enhancement I noticed is your currency is automatically selected for your project location, no more need for me to trawl through a long list looking for GB Pounds :-)
Tomorrow is BIM Show Live Day in London, an event covering all aspects of the BIM lifecycle. I'll be there presenting Rapid Energy Modelling, using BIM for portfolio analysis. See the agenda here:
If you are there, be sure to say hello.
The Northern Europe Technical Team are running a series of webcasts on various AEC products and workflows, some have already been run and recorded, others are scheduled for live presentation over the next few months.
You can register for upcoming webinars and watch the recordings at:
Please note the times are set from the UK, so either British Summer Time or GMT.
Last week Autodesk announced Autodesk Cloud, an offering for customers featuring a range of web based capabilities. Some of the functionality is new, some has been around for some time. From the sustainable design perspective, two of the previously available energy analysis tools are included, namely Autodesk Revit Conceptual Energy Analysis and Autodesk Green Building Studio, videos of which can be found below:
Further details on the benefits of Autodesk Cloud and how to access them can be found at:
The Autodesk Sustainability Team have just launched another great set of educational videos, this time focusing on the built environment.
The series contains four videos covering the following subjects:
You can check them out here:
Net Zero Energy Buildings Sustainability Workshop
The Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program supports pioneers in the sustainable design field and my colleague Jerker Hagglund alerted me to one such company in Norway who are benefiting from this program.
Read more about ECOBIM and the services they offer here:
You can find out more about the Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program here:
