Sustainable Design using Revit, Ecotect and Green Building Studio
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By integrating sustainable design technologies into your workflows, you can gain better design insight with whole-building energy, water, and carbon emission analysis.
Building information modeling (BIM) solutions help make sustainable design practices easier, more efficient, and less costly. This allows you to interact with powerful visual feedback to study how environmental factors may impact building performance.
Simulate Early. Analyze Often using Ecotect and Green Building Studio...
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- Comprehensive analysis capabilities help you to analyze and simulate conceptual designs.
- Add value through energy and water efficiency and environmental performance.
- Study alternatives and make decisions earlier to deliver achievable, resource-efficient building designs.
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Shading Design
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 Design shading devices to optimally shade a window and calculate solar radiation for the window over time period.
- Interactively design shading devices and receive instant feedback on their effectiveness;
- Automatically generate optimised shading devices for any date or time of the year;
- Trace solar profiles over the model, allowing you to see how the path of the sun interacts with geometry of any complexity;
- Use the analysis grid to project solar potential, to determine which parts of a shading device are most effective;
- Project solar rays onto a model, to determine the effectiveness of shading devices such as louvres;
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Visual Impact
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 A powerful suite of visualization tools and user-friendly step-by step wizards that make it easy to calculate the visual impact of proposed developments.
- Determine the visibility of one or more objects from any location, such as the elevation of another building;
- Calculate spatial visibility over a three-dimensional analysis grid, and display these results as a volumetric projection;
- Calculate and analyze access to views from within a building;
- Check a proposed building for compliance with performance requirements for views, such as LEED™;
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Daylighting
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 Natural and artificial light level calculations together with daylight factor and vertical sky component analysis
- Calculate daylight factors for any space,
- Calculate other daylight values such as sky factor and vertical sky component,
- Visualise the results of daylight analysis within the 3D context of any model,
- Adjust the properties of surfaces and materials that affect daylight,
- Export to Radiance for more detailed analysis
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Solar Radiation
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 Visualize solar radiation on windows and surfaces, showing differential incident solar radiation calculated over any period.
- Calculate solar exposure and shading mask graphs for surfaces and objects
- Determine solar availability and solar envelope
- Compare before and after solar radiation analysis values
- Calculate available solar radiation for photo-voltaic arrays
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Shadows and Reflections
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 Interactively view shadows, sun penetration, and reflections
- Display shadows and reflections using a variety of techniques on a proposed building or site;
- Project a sun-path diagram over the 3D model;
- Calculate shadow range and butterfly diagrams for any day of th year;
- Generate accurate shading masks for determining the extent of overshadowing;
- Isolate shadows cast by a proposed development to show only additional overshadowing;
- Reverse project shadows to determine which parts of a proposed development are causing overshadowing;
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Thermal Analysis
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 Calculate heating and sensible cooling loads for models with any number of zones or type of geometry
- Calculate internal temperatures for a thermal zone Calcualte heat losses and gains within a building.
- Determine heating and cooling demands for thermal zones in a model.
- Analyse the effectsm of thermal insulation and thermal mass within a building.
- Export tabulated thermal data in a range of different formats.
- Export images of results graphs to a range of applications.
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Sustainable Design.
