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Autodesk Ecotect Analysis 2011
Sustainable Building Design Software |
Autodesk Ecotect Analysis sustainable design analysis software is a comprehensive concept-to-detail sustainable building design tool. Ecotect Analysis offers a wide range of simulation and building energy analysis functionality that can improve performance of existing buildings and new building designs. Online energy, water, and carbon-emission analysis capabilities integrate with tools that enable you to visualize and simulate a building's performance within the context of its environment.
- Whole-building energy analysis—Calculate total energy use and carbon emissions of your building model on an annual, monthly, daily, and hourly basis, using a global database of weather information.
- Thermal performance—Calculate heating and cooling loads for models and analyze effects of occupancy, internal gains, infiltration, and equipment.
- Water usage and cost evaluation—Estimate water use inside and outside the building.
- Solar radiation—Visualize incident solar radiation on windows and surfaces, over any period.
- Daylighting—Calculate daylight factors and illuminance levels at any point in the model.
- Shadows and reflections—Display the sun’s position and path relative to the model at any date, time, and location.
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| Success story: ARBA Studios |
The challenge
The objective of the renovation project was to provide a functional, efficient, and low-maintenance facility that adhered to the requirements of the tax-credit program.
The Solution
Using the integrated BIM process for design, visualization, and simulation, ARBA Studios was able to evaluate the accuracy of the BIM analysis tools in depicting building performance and recommend a series of usage and design strategies for reducing the facility’s overall energy consumption and carbon footprint.
Working directly within Revit Architecture software, Zigo exported the model to Ecotect Analysis using the green building extensible markup language (gbXML) open schema, and began evaluating multiple design options. “We immediately saw that adding new glazing would be prohibitively costly,” says Zigo. “But by using the software’s dynamic shading device tool, we were able to examine animations for a variety of shading device configurations and identify those that best reduced glare.”
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ARBA Studios
The Result
“Because we crafted the model carefully and received accurate information about the building’s utility costs and operational schedule, there was minimal discrepancy between the real-world data and what we saw in the model,” says Zigo. In fact, the simulated results for electrical usage fell within 3.58 percent of the actual numbers, and those for gas usage within 0.33 percent.
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See the ARBA Studios success story |
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