November 12, 2008—Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has released two new suites of integrated sustainable analysis tools the Architectural Suite and the Architectural Suite Plus. Both offerings provide architects with early-stage environmental design assistance in a variety of categories, including energy consumption, carbon emissions, LEED daylighting, solar shading and artificial lighting, enabling them to perform customized analysis for each project.
The environmental analysis tools are integrated around a central 3D model that can connect directly with Google SketchUp, Autodesk Revit and with other 3D design tools via gbXML, says IES. Utilizing these suites, architects can quickly and easily incorporate environmental performance analysis into their design workflow without rebuilding geometry. Multiple design iterations can rapidly be assessed to help maximize the environmental performance of the final design.
The IES Architectural Suite and Architectural Suite Plus provide access to IES’ most powerful environmental analysis tools. Included in both bundles are IES’ Sustainability Toolkit, Advanced Daylight Analysis, Artificial Lighting Design and Advanced Solar Analysis, as well as comprehensive training sessions to get users up to speed quickly.
The Sustainability Toolkit enables architects to perform common sustainable design analysis in a single click, including assessments of energy efficiency, carbon footprint, 2030 Challenge and LEED daylight requirements, as well as thermal comfort and loads information.
The Advanced Daylight, Lighting Design and Solar Analysis modules provide a more detailed assessment of daylight and solar shading strategies such as light pipes, light wells, light shelves, semi-transparent glazing and brise soleil. Additionally, tools to inform and enable detailed design of artificial lighting layouts are included, as well as the ability to perform advanced visualization and calculation of light/solar penetration and photo-realistic 3D rendering using ray-tracing.
For more information visit the IES Web site.
