Revit Tutorials - Energy Analysis and eQuest (BPA Blog)

If you haven't checked out John and Emile's blog about Building Performance Analysis (BPA) check it out now!  

To start you off with some goodies here are two great posts about Revit, Green Building Studio, eQuest, and beyond....

Advanced Energy Analysis with Green Building Studio DOE2 and EnergyPlus support

Posted by:   David Scheer - Green Building Studio Product Owner

Who is this for:

• Engineers and energy analysts who want to do more detailed work on their analysis model than the tools in Autodesk^® Revit^®, Vasari^® or Green Building Studio^® allow.

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Tutorial – Green Button XML file

By Peter Shi with Barry Tsai

Who is this for: Energy Analyst, Building Scientists, Energy Modeling Engineers and GBS users.

Takeaway: If you have experience in any real world building energy simulation, you would know synchronization of utility data and historical weather data is a very manual and labor extensive process. Green Button feature is designed to help user to automate and streamline this process.

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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 Green Building Tools

Going Green is Easier with Autodesk's Green Building Tools

Everyone says "green" these days. It's very in to be Sustainable and
LEED certified is nearly a given with the crop of government projects
and new government incentives. But how do you analyze your building
before it's built? Autodesk(R) Ecotect Analysis(TM) and Autodesk(R)
Green Building Studio(R) offer BIM-enabled Sustainable design, allowing
architects and designers to make decisions early in the design process,
look at multiple options and choose the best one for the job in a
quick, visual format.

Join us for a complimentary hour-long overview of Autodesk Ecotect
Analysis or Green Building Studio to see how these programs can help
you with solar, thermal and acoustic analysis as well as ENERGY Star
scoring, daylighting and energy and carbon results.

Avatech's LEED-accredited technical expert will show you how these
tools can be used in your everyday workflow to provide a better, more
intelligent energy-efficient model.

Ecotect Analysis Webcast
June 25, 2009
10:00 AM ET
and
2:00 PM ET

Green Building Studio Webcast
June 26, 2009
10:00 AM ET
and
2:00 PM ET

Register Now

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