Building Performance Analysis

Don’t Forget to Register: NEW Energy Analysis Features in Revit 2016 Webinar

This week on Thursday we will be hosting a FREE webinar on the new Revit 2016 Energy Analysis features. During the webinar Autodesk Senior Product Manager Ian Molloy will provide live demonstrations of the tools and how they work with the existing Revit Energy Analysis workflow. Thursday, April 30th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT Register here. Webinar attendees will receive 1 AIA LU. Get your hands on Revit 2016 today. Related articles Free Webinar! Learn about the NEW Energy Analysis Features in Revit 2016 Read more →

AU Call for Proposals Open

It’s that time of year again! Even though we are 216 days away, it’s time to start thinking about Autodesk University. The call for proposals opened last week and will stay open until May 26th. More details here. This year’s theme: The Future of Making Things. Did you use Lighting Analysis for Revit on a really epic project? Or perhaps you customized your Project Solon dashboard and revolutionized how projects done at your firm. Maybe you created a super cool Dynamo package to expedite your analysis process. Whatever it was, we want you to share your great work. Last year... Read more →

Free Webinar! Learn about the NEW Energy Analysis Features in Revit 2016

Join us for a FREE webinar at the end of the month and learn about the exciting new Energy Analysis features in Revit 2016. We gave you a teaser video last week, now learn about the features in depth and how they fit into the existing energy analysis workflows. Thursday, April 30th 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT Register here. Autodesk Senior Product Manager Ian Molloy will lead the webinar and provide a live demonstration of the tools. Webinar attendees will receive 1 AIA LU. Get your hands on Revit 2016 today. Related articles Revit 2016 Release Announcement-New Energy Analysis... Read more →

Revit 2016 Release Announcement-New Energy Analysis Features!

It’s here! It’s here! We can now officially start telling you all about Revit 2016, and we here on the BPA team are excited about some new enhancements to the Energy Analysis for Revit workflow. Watch this video to learn more. Over the course of the next month, we’ll dive into how these enhancements can streamline your analysis workflow, validate and verify your analytical model, and help inform you design decisions. Stay tuned! Read more →

New Sustainability Solutions Website!

Autodesk’s Sustainability Solutions team has a new website! You can now find them at sustainability.autodesk.com. Under the High Performance Building Design section you can find energy and lighting analysis information. Check it out and spread the news! Read more →

HVAC Sizing and Load Calculations with EnergyPlus Cloud

As many of you know, the BPA team has been focused on improving EnergyPlus runtime and has achieved up to 20X faster simulation with the cloud. In order to reach this goal, several input parameters were optimized and output reports were limited to annual building utility summary reports (ABUPS). Based on user feedback and the immediate needs of designers, the BPA team has now added space heat gain summary (Figure 1) and zone load component summary (Figure 2) reports. These reports provide the peak heating and cooling loads in all zones, and include a breakdown of the load contributions from... Read more →

FormIt Friday Kickoff

Want to learn the FormIt basics and get a sneak peek at what’s around the corner? Who doesn’t! Join the Autodesk FormIt 360 product team for the first episode of the new FormIt Friday webinar series! Friday, April 10, 2015 12:30 PM EDT Register now! Read the full announcement here. Read more →

EnergyPlus Cloud API Webinar Posted

Last week we hosted a webinar on the EnergyPlus Cloud API. The recording is now available and you can view it here. To summarize the webinar, Pete Thompson covered the workflow for using the API as follows: Generate input file using an IDF authoring tool Submit IDF/EPW files Receive an email to download output Additionally, you can find the new C# project and Python code here. Thanks to all who attended and asked some great questions on the line. We hope you enjoyed it and learned enough about the EnergyPlus Cloud API to start using it. For any questions, comments,... Read more →