Ecodesigner in action

ARCHIADDONGURU

Mission-To analyse a Holiday house in Johannesburg indepth,we will analyse the buildings Energy Consumption,Carbon Emissions,Carbon Footprint,Heat gain and Green Energy Production in an attempt to make our building more Energy efficient and to battle the evil forces of Global warming.To accomplish such a daunting task , we are going to need something powerful and special.We will be using a new Add on for Archicad 14 named Ecodesigner.

We will try and accomplish this by following 5 simple stages .

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Stage 1-Analysis

The Johannesburg Holiday Home before any design changes

                        Ecodesigner evaluation sheet                                                                                       

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New Ecodesigner making new leaps in design

ARCHIADDONGURU

A new version Ecodesigner for Archicad  15 has been released and considering the CRAZY(Huge ) amounts of  exciting new features and tools that Archicad 15 has been upgraded with(not that we complaining:-) it only seems fitting that Ecodesigner gets an upgrade too.           

Ecodesigner still functions on the same principles but offer more for the user.An improved user interface as well as much more detailed evaluation sheets are a few of the programs new features,keeping in mind that Ecodesigner is an Addon for Archicad yet still stands its own against its competitors and other  standalone energy effieciency programs and just seems to be getting better and better.

The new energy evaluation sheet still has the similar key value section which displays the project information as well as the building geometry data,building shell performance data,heat transfer coeffiecients and the buildings annual demands which breaks the annual demands…

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Energy SA news

• ArchiMAG: COR – GREEN BUILDING THAT STANDS OUT : absolute must read article, stunning competition entry!!! From the article: “…Not only is COR an impressive looking building – it is also a remarkable example how great design can be achieved by combining architecture, engineering and ecology…”

 

• http://www.energymatters.com.au/ : not all solar inverters are equal : “…by Energy Matters : A video just released by Australian solar power company Energy Matters graphically demonstrates the differing levels of quality in solar inverters…”

 

• http://www.energymatters.com.au/ : EBay adds more solar panels : “…by Energy Matters : As part of its green initiatives, eBay has installed a 665 kilowatt (kW) solar panel array on the rooftop of its Topaz data center in Utah…”