This is the 4th video in a multi-part tutorial on how to acquire daily weather data for a specific place, caclulate monthly and annual averages, and calculate heating and cooling degree days. In this video we calculate monthly heating and cooling degree days in Excel.

Natural Light, Daylighting, SketchUp, Daylight Factor, Luminous autonomy, BREEAM, comfort, performance, pleasantness, solar study, Sky View Factor, SEPP65, EN17037, Rights of Light

Visual Delight in Architecture book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Visual Delight in Architecture examines the many ways that...

The 2B studio is sharing a speaker event with the larger community. Lisa Heschong, author of the seminal Thermal Delight in Architecture, will be sharing her new book with us Visual Delight in Architecture. It will be discussed broadly through the trajectory of her career, and will focus on topics especially central to the 2B term including microclimates, environment, and the concept of nature.

It is a presentation of the SketchUp plug-in for analyzing daylight conditions. For more info please visit http://www.deltacodes.pl/en/shadowanalysis/demo-download

Minimizing thermal bridging through the building envelope is a key design aspect for achieving net-zero energy-ready (NZER) buildings. However, this can seem quite complicated for project teams, especially when much of the envelope is unknown during the early building design stage. Finding the optimal envelope solution for thermal performance that also incorporates architectural intent, cost savings, constructibility and durability is only achieved when the entire project team is engaged to collectively meet these goals. This playbook outlines good design practices for anticipating and dealing with thermal bridging in order to meet the expectations of the BC Energy [Step Code], Passive House or other NZER standards. The intent of this document is to provide guidance for design teams including developers, architects and consultants, to effectively tackle thermal bridging while meeting all project goals, not just thermal performance. 0:00 - Introduction 2:44 - Why does thermal bridging matter? 5:17 - How to set and achieve thermal bridging mitigation targets 9:06 - An example of thermal bridging mitigation for a multi-unit residential building 10:40 - Five tips to avoid thermal bridging pitfalls To access the playbook, check out 'Thermal Bridging In Net-Zero Energy-Ready Building Design' on the ZEBx.org website 'Resources' - or follow the link here: https://www.zebx.org/playbook-dealing-with-thermal-bridging-in-net-zero-energy-ready-building-design/

Overview of LightStanza's Electrical Light Modeling Capabilities. Revit, CAD, SketchUp, Rhino Workflows

Bauen für die Gemeinschaft in Wien Die vorgestellten Wohnprojekte in Wien entstanden aus dem Wunsch, Lebenskonzepte zu entwickeln, die den Gemeinschaftssinn stärken und zu einer solidarischen Gesellschaft beitragen – Baugruppen und partizipative Projekte,

With an increasing interest in quality of nutrition and health, urban food production has begun to occur inside the growing cities worldwide and risks to compete with other urban needs. The book introduces typologies, tools, evaluation methods and strategies, and shows the practical applications of the methods. Multiple projects illustrate solutions that augment quality via the insertion of food production entities into the urban realm.

Buildings as sources of materials - More information: https://bit.ly/2MPg6wu

Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS)

Alpenpanoramen erzeugen, Berge identifizieren, Gipfel identifizieren, Alpen-Panoramen erzeugen, Alpenpanoramen, Alpen-Panoramen, identification of summits

Presented by: Ed May Description: The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) is a powerful tool for anyone looking to design, build or certify a Passive House project. This excel-based energy modeling software can yield tremendous insight into how our buildings are performing and can help design and construction teams identify the best pathways to a healthy, durable and low-energy project. However, along with this power comes complexity. The PHPP can often be quite intimidating to first-time users, and even experienced practitioners can easily get lost within this multifaceted tool. The comprehensive course, organized into easy to digest chapters, will introduce participants to the proper use of the PHPP within the context of a residential building project. By following along with the course, through a mix of self-paced online video tutorials and in-person sessions, participants will learn how to transform a set of architectural drawings, details and specifications into a fully fledged PHPP model. Along the way we'll also dive into the background, conventions, standards and rules which govern the use of the PHPP for Certified Passive House buildings. Additionally, we'll see how we can use the PHPP to test design iterations, evaluate building performance and gain a better understanding of the Passive House performance targets. This course is designed with the US practitioner in mind and will be conducted in English, using the IP version of the software. The course will work best for those participants who want to 'model-along' and so having a working copy of the PHPP v9.7-IP will be important, though not required. This course will be useful to anyone looking to better understand this powerful and important piece of the Passive House toolkit

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The app merges data from the Köppen-Geiger climate classification system with 27 design strategies taken from the Architecture 2030 palette for sustainable design, allowing users to generate a building cross-section that overlays sustainable design characteristics appropriate for their selected location.

Shadowmap visualizes solar shadows on an interactive 3D web-based map. For any moment in time, anywhere on Earth.

Shadowmap visualizes solar shadows on an interactive 3D web-based map. For any moment in time, anywhere on Earth.

SunClac is a nice web app for calculating sun position and sunrise/sunset/twilight times given location and date.

As designers of the built environment, let’s help ensure the future of our planet by reducing carbon footprints and increasing sequestration. This is Climate Positive Design.

See screenshots, read testimonials, watch video tutorials, and learn what you can do with the app.

An ecoregion is an area with major physiographic and minor macroclimatic or oceanographic variation. There are 43 ecoregion in British Columbia of which 39 are terrestrial. Ecodivsions are meant to be mapped at 1:500,000 for regional strategic planning

Create a free satellite map with soil data, elevation contours (hypsography), and parcels. Farm planning begins with a good site…

Carrot City is a research initiative that explores how design can enable the production of food in cities. You will find a comprehensive repository of the Carrot City initiative and is intended as a research tool for anyone who is interested in the links between design and food in today's cities.

This tool shows how the severity of climate change impacts will increase over time in regions, countries and provinces at different levels of warming, starting with 1.5°C, the limit in the Paris Agreement. It also allows access to the underlying data.

OpenDroneMap is a free and open source ecosystem of solutions to process aerial data. Generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from drone images.