Today Autodesk made a number of significant announcements at Greenbuild in Philadelphia.
For all the details please see the official announcement at Autodesk's In The Fold blog
Converting Energy Plus to C++ from FORTRAN
Autodesk has worked over the past decade to help the US DOE speed up EnergyPlus specifically for large BIM sized models, which are common today. One of the challenges we have found working with EnergyPlus is that it is written in Fortran – not a common language nor are there a lot of modern techniques available in Fortran for today’s computational environments such as multi-core CPUs and the cloud.
So, Autodesk decided to translate EnergyPlus from Fortran to C++ where our industry has more resources available and more techniques available to make EnergyPlus run much faster and work much better with BIM. We see this translation as the first step in accelerating the use and power of EnergyPlus in the broader building industry.
We are delighted that the US DOE is accepting our code donation and look forward to working with them to bring EnergyPlus into the 21st century to run significantly faster and work seamlessly with BIM to benefit all building projects in our industry.
Both Autodesk and DOE have made a public commitment to make the C++ version of the EnergyPlus available as Open Source and to continue to improve EnergyPlus. Both the source code and compiled version of the program will soon be available to anyone who is interested in whole building energy analysis.
New BPA Professional Certificate and Credits: The Autodesk Building Performance Analysis (BPA) Certificate program, launched in August for students and educators worldwide, is now open to professionals seeking continuing education credit. For more information and links to the pilot courses, please visit the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop Courses site.
Super-fast LEED Daylighting Analysis - Now available on Autodesk Labs, the new LEED Daylighting Plug-in for Revit, analyzes the entire model using Autodesk’s 360 Rendering cloud service in a matter of minutes. This Daylighting analysis tool streamlines LEED EQc8.1 calculations and credit documentation all within Revit, and it can reduce time required for a daylighting analysis and documentation workflow from a couple of weeks to less than a couple of hours. The cloud-based Autodesk 360 Rendering service also provides advanced daylight and artificial lighting simulation capabilities directly from detailed Revit models. More details can be found in this blog post.
Autodesk also showed a couple of applications that are used to demonstrate industry workflows. These applications are not publicly available.
LEED Process Automation – The LEED Automation App has direct access to LEED Online through USGBC’s LEED Automation Partner Program. The App based on Autodesk PLM 360, aims to drastically simplify LEED documentation and project management.
LEED Credit Manager: The LEED Credit Manager is a Revit add-in. It aims to automate LEED calculations and improve design decisions for a number of LEED credits, right from within the design environment.
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