Building Performance Analysis

Project Rosenfeld for Rapid Energy Modeling now available

Autodesk is excited to announce a first-in-the-industry app that allows you to create a building energy model on your iPad, in the field, starting from just a few photographs! Project Rosenfeld is an interactive, mobile application that allows you to quickly and efficiently capture existing building conditions and create 3D models for energy analysis. After taking photographs with an iPad, you are guided step-by-step to create a digital model of the existing building. In a matter of minutes, you have an energy model and a detailed energy assessment report you can use to prioritize energy conservation measures. Features include 3D... Read more →

New Energy Cost Range provides a single, simple indicator of potential building energy use and the key factors that influence it

The Autodesk Building Performance Analysis team is very excited to announce new releases of the Energy Cost Range (ECR); a feature first introduced on FormIt for iOS, is now also available Revit , Vasari, and on the web. These new capabilities build upon, and extend beyond those in FormIt by using the actual Revit or Vasari Building Information Model data and multiple whole building energy simulations run by Green Building Studio and configured by Project Solon, all in the cloud. These features are essentially our response to requests for a more intuitive and interactive way to convey building energy use... Read more →

The Revit Credit Manager for LEED is out on Labs

he Revit Credit Manager for LEED® will allow you to automate calculations as well as streamline the submittals conveniently from inside Autodesk® Revit® 2014 software for the following LEED 2009 credits Daylighting IEQ 8.1 (Option 1 Simulation and Option 2 Prescriptive) Views IEQ8.2, and Water Use Reduction (WEp1, WEC3 for LEED NC, WEC2 in LEED CI) For Option 1 (simulation approach), you also need to download Lighting Analysis for Revit See Demo video here: Take it for a test drive today at www.autode.sk/rcml Related articles Update now in Labs for Revit Daylighting Analysis (RDA) for LEED plugin Read more →

Autodesk Green Building Studio's Latest Release: Project Solon Runsets for Revit and Vasari; Performance Improvements; Energy Star Results; Expanded HVAC Design Alternatives

Project Solon Runsets: Autodesk Green Building Studio’s latest release expands the Project Solon capabilities by enabling the Runsets Feature. A Runset is a collection of energy analysis runs that allows you to configure your own parametric studies for your project by comparing the results of multiple energy simulations, each varying one or more building parameters. The Runset results can be shared by everyone in your company with a subscription to Revit or Vasari. The Project Solon Runsets is a fully functional production release being promoted for feedback as a technology preview through Autodesk Labs. Read more →

What's New in Revit Sundial?

Revit has a new Preview version called Sundial. Take a look at what is new which includes to Revit energy Analysis capabilities. Follow all the details of the preview and comment on it using the resurrected Inside The Factory blog. Read more →

New Lighting Analysis for Revit Release - Now with LEED 4.0 Opt 2

Lighting Analysis for Revit has been updated with a number of new features and improvements including the addition of an option for LEED v4 EQ credit 7 option 2. Read more →

Formit Weather Stations on iPad is here! Let’s take a first look ...

Today we are announcing the immediate availability of the Formit Weather Station service on iPad. Weather Stations provide historical weather data in a form that extends beyond the desktop. Weather Stations allow you to learn all sorts of things about the climate of your project site Read more →

Participate in the Project Solon Dashboards for Revit Autodesk Labs Project

Create your own dashboards for Energy Analyis for Revit... Project Solon Dashboards for Autodesk Revit is based on new technology now available in Revit. Now you can personalize the building performance analysis experience in Revit by defining a dashboard with charts and results that are important to you. The central web-based Solon management environment allows you to create charts and configure dashboards for all of your company Revit users from a central collaboration environment in Green Building Studio. Normally Autodesk Labs projects are called technology previews because they involve unveiling some new technology that is in a pre-beta, even pre-alpha... Read more →

Project Solon Beta arrives in Revit – Get more interactive Energy Analysis results, create your own, and publish them to Revit

Who is this for: Anyone interested in energy analysis using Revit. Takeaway: Autodesk Green Building Studio (GBS) has just released the Beta version of Analysis Application Dashboard in Project Solon: You can now author your Revit model once and deliver energy analysis results to your software application, web, and mobile device. Project Solon delivers responsive results designs for your energy analysis, with customized dynamic charts of energy results. What does it do? The Analysis Application Dashboard feature in Project Solon enables you to customize how you review, analyze, and communicate the energy analysis results of your Revit 2014 and Revit... Read more →

Update and extension of Light Analysis for Revit is available in Labs

We are very excited to announce another upgrade to Light Analysis extension for Revit (formerly Revit Daylighting Analysis (RDA) for LEED). The new version was posted to the Autodesk Labs site on Thursday, March 27. Read more →