Sensitivity analysis can help a designer focus on the most important elements of a design, tell an energy modeler or asset rater what characteristics of an existing building are really significant, help an archtiect ensure the performance of the building is maintained during VE or contractor negoatiations, or expose the best opportunities and lowest risks of an energy retrofit project.
Session 30: New Features for Design Guidance with Automatic Sensitivity Analysis in GBS <-- click here to see Vasari Talk 30, where we introduce sensitivity analysis with the new Potential Energy Savings app from Green Building Studio.
This kind of valuable information is usually obtained by comparing the results of dozens of energy simulations, each varying one or more building parameters. Unfortunately this has always been a tedious and time-consuming process of iteration, process and review, iteration, process and review, and most don't have the time to take advantage of it often enough, even if they do have the technical expertise.
Recently the Green Buidling Studio team introduced for Revit, Vasari and GBS a number of significant improvements to its services that remove the tedium and provide a seamless workflow that includes automatic sensitivity analysis for every simulation job submitted to GBS. Now every BIM user can use the regulated systems in GBS to automatically configure, simulate and visualize the results of 40 design variations in a single step, with appropriate settings for almost any combination of building type, size and location.
Vasari Talk Session 30 is the first in a set of two presentations on energy analysis workflows using the new GBS Potential Energy Savings (PES) tool.
Keep an eye out for the second part to be presented in the Vasari Talk session on June 26,
Part 2 - Sensitivity workflows in Revit and Vasari using the new Potential Energy Savings chart
where we will present a project that used the PES extensively, and discuss a number of other ways to use this tool in new and existing building workflows from design to calibration to retrofit to rating.
More information is on the Vasari Talk Wiki site, or sign up for notifications here.
For more resources on the new PES from GBS:
- Using GBS from Vasari and Revit
- Log in or Sign up for a Free Trial of Green Building Studio
- BPA Blog
- BPA Blog articles on the PES
- Wiki Help on PES
- Wiki Help on PES validation (including the Excel validation study download)
- BPA Blog article on GBS defaults
- The NBI study on sensitivity analysis
Your feedback drives the development of new features and improvements! Try out the PES, tell us what you think. What do you like? What needs some work? What should we do next?
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