Autodesk Education Community - Green Building Studio is now FREE for students!!

That is right... Green Building Studio is avaliable to students for FREE.  This is awesome news and I will most certainly be posting some videos in the future of how students, like myself, can use Green Building Studio in school.  Great stuff.

Autodesk Education Community News

Autodesk Green Building Studio Available Now
Autodesk® Green Building Studio® is now available on the Autodesk Education Community! Designed to help architects perform whole building analysis, the software keeps sustainability in mind earlier in the design process.

What's New on Autodesk Labs
Check out what's cooking in Autodesk Labs, home to innovative new technologies and collaborative development. Through an online forum, Labs provides the public with free, early access to prototypes, technology previews, and experimental web services.

Autodesk Yale University BIM Symposium Videos
View six great new videos of top university professors discussing implications of architecture pedagogy during a BIM Symposium co-hosted by Autodesk and Yale University.

Autodesk Revit Architecture German Tutorials
Created by Autodesk Student Experts from Graz University of Technology in Germany, these three new German Revit Architecture tutorials contain informative handouts, sample files and videos.

Autodesk Workshops at ACADIA Conference
Autodesk will host two workshops at the ACADIA conference October 18 – 20 at The Cooper Union in New York. Attendees of these workshops will learn Autodesk Revit Architecture and Autodesk Ecotect Analysis software. Register now!

Autodesk ACADIA Classes

Autodesk will have two informative workshops at the upcoming ACADIA 2010 conference at the Cooper Union in New York, NY, October 18 - 20. We hope to see you there!Conceptual Design in Autodesk Revit Architecture Workshop Dates: October 18 – 20 Time: 9:00 – 4:00 Instructors: Matt Jezyk, Senior Manager, Autodesk AEC Conceptual Design Products Lira Nikolovska, Principal Designer, Autodesk AEC BIM User Experience Greg Demchak, Senior Designer, Autodesk BIM User Experience Zachary Kron, Autodesk AEC Senior Quality Assurance Analyst Topic/Description: Conceptual Design with Autodesk® Revit Architecture The aim of this workshop is explore the new Revit conceptual design workflows, specifically parametric modelling and performative design using Autodesk® Revit®. The first part of the workshop will focus on the ins and outs of the new form making and manipulation tools including creation of parametric rigs to drive and modify form, surface panelization, reporting parameters and adaptive components. The second part of the workshop will focus on analysis applied early into the design process (conceptual energy analysis, solar radiation, use of structural analysis plug-ins), and will also provide overview of API features such as Analysis Visualization Framework and Dynamic Updating. 30-day trial copies of Autodesk Revit Architecture / Autodesk Revit MEP will be available for those who do not already have this software. Educational copies of Revit are available for free for students and faculty and can be downloaded in advance from http://students.autodesk.com// Sustainable Design Workshop Dates: October 18 Time: 9:00 – 4:00 Instructor: Dr. Andrew Marsh, Sr. Principal Engineer, AEC-Simulation Topic/Description: Performative Design with Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis The aim of this workshop is to explore the boundaries of generative and performative design using Autodesk® Ecotect® Analysis, Autodesk® Green Building Studio® and Autodesk® Revit®. The workshop will focus on the use iterative techniques and automated feedback from performance analysis to optimise and refine building geometry. While developing scripts in Autodesk Ecotect is quite easy and the fundamentals can be picked up during the course of the workshop, some experience with programming concepts and/or languages will be advantageous. While mainly directed sessions, there will also be scope to develop some custom scripts, so participants are encouraged to consider problems specific to their own schemes or designs as the basis of their work. 30-day trial copies of Autodesk Ecotect Analysis and Autodesk Revit Architecture / Autodesk Revit MEP will be available for those who do not already have this software. For more information and to register, visit http://www.acadia.org/acadia2010/