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 [...]
Vote for your Favorite Autodesk University 2009 proposals
Yes, I got a little carried away this year. I enjoyed presenting last year and got so much great feedback from attendees that I wanted to make sure I had some top notch classes in this year’s event. I went through a bunch of my notes and projects this past year and tried to craft [...]
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