Daylight Design with Archicad 15 and Velux Daylight Visualizer

VELUX Daylight Visulaizer - rendering

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.

BIM Energy Analysis with ArchiCAD 16

archicad16 integrated energy analysis tool EcoDesigner

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:

Graphisoft announces Archicad 15

The new features of ArchiCad 15 are visible on Graphisoft website.

We had a look at the presentation videos to have a preview of what this upgrade is going to be about.

Archicad 15 new features

Through the Italian forum ‘ArchicadObjects’, we were able to see some preview clips about the new features of Archicad 15, by Graphisoft.

The new features involve enhanced 3D modelling, including custom reference plane in 3D, enhaced guidelines management, shell tool.

“Green BIM” webinar | GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner

We took part in the webinar “Green” BIM – Low Energy Building Design for New Projects and Retrofits with GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner”, organized by Graphisoft to present Ecodesigner, the energy evaluation add-on for ArchiCad.

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