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Designing with daylight in mind not only allows for a more comfortable interior space, but it can also give you substantial savings in energy consumption. By integrating ArchiCAD’s BIM technology with Velux’s Daylight Visualizer, architects can now precisely simulate daylighting in buildings as early as the very first steps of preliminary design.
Graphisoft has just released the preview videos for their new ArchiCAD version 16, and we are pretty excited about it here at Emu Architects. Enrico Bonilauri has written an extensive assessment of the newly integrated energy analysis features (basically incorporating EcoDesigner) over on our Italian blog. I’ll attempt to translate his thoughts into English here for our international readers:
This evening’s live webinar from Everblue was entitled ‘Green Labeling’, a summary of green product labels. The goal of this presentation was to not only introduce various certification schemes for “green” products, but also to define what some of the criteria are for determining their “green-ness” as well as identify a few of the organizations responsible for certifying them.
Today I sat in on the live webinar ‘Carbon Accounting’, offered by Everblue as continuing education credits towards my LEED Accredited Professional credential. The goals of this presentation were to understand greenhouses gases, carbon accounting, and then identify what parts of the LEED rating system are affected by these concepts.
Yesterday I was able to complete an on-demand webinar class by Everblue in order to complete my Continued Education hours for my LEED AP BD&C credential. This one was called ‘Life Cycle Anaslysis’, and satisfied 2 hours in the ‘Acquisition, Installation and Management of Project Materials’ portion of required subjects…
