As many of you already know, I’m a big Ecotect Analysis fan. Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure (well, mostly a pleasure) of helping hundreds of designers in the US and parts of Europe use this tool to improve the performance of their buildings. That being said, I’m also the first to admit [...]
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My Article in the AIA Journal – “What’s Keeping Architects from Embracing Energy Simulation?” Overview
Open publication Well, I’m happy to announce that the article I wrote on challenges that architects face while performing energy analysis has been published in the AIA Journal. Pretty cool! It’s actually the first part in a 3 part series and I intend to get some feedback from readers to help guide the next articles [...]
Introducing Ecotect Analysis Training Series
What a busy Autodesk University this year! I’d like to thank all the attendees of my 2 sold out Ecotect classes. What a great time! It’s obvious that there is a lot of excitement about this great product and we’ve been getting requests from all over the country asking one thing – “Where can we [...]
Phoenix Green Roundtable highlights
This morning was the August Green Roundtable meeting, considering the topic “Greenbuild 09: Understanding the New Green Economy” As usual, this was a great networking event for anyone involved in any sort of green initiatives. I was there to meet with primarily with architects and designers interested in learning how they can use software technology [...]
Shading Device Wizard in Ecotect Analysis 2010
I have to say, the more I use Ecotect Analysis, the more amazed I am with it. The technical analysis that this software is doing behind the scenes is phenomenal, but the way that it visualizes this data into an understandable and graphically interesting way to get the point across to non building science engineers [...]
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