Upcoming Webinars
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Air Leakage Testing of Commercial and Multi-Family Buildings to Comply with Codes and Improve Building Performance
All high rise buildings suffer from one or more of the following problems:
- air quality complaints ? cigarette and cooking odors
- higher energy bills than anticipated
- excessive mechanical system maintenance
- vehicle exhaust fumes coming up from garages
- powerful drafts in cold weather
- moisture problems; condensation, mold, unhealthy humidity levels
We will present testing results on several high rise buildings that have undergone compartment by compartment air leakage tests that would have identified these problems. LEED only touches on the issue; there is much more that must be done to modernize our high rise buildings. We will show how problems can be fixed easily prior to occupancy by proper commissioning and how to designs can be improved to avoid problems in the first place.
Occupied multi-family buildings are difficult to test because you may only be able to access small portions of the building at one time. See how much can be learned with just one gauge to locate pressure imbalances. Then, using only two blower doors, learn how to locate and measure air leakage paths between units and common areas.
Learning objectives
#1 Locate leakage paths in multi-family individual units
#2 Automatically Test multi-family units with limited access.
#3 Novel ways of testing parts of multi-family and large buildings.
#4 Understanding test results from software.
#5 Confirm Quality Control and test results remotely.
About the Presenter
Colin Genge is CEO of Retrotec, a Washington State based company that has been designing, selling and training users of blower door-fans, precision pressure gauges and analytical software since 1980. Colin has done considerable research on testing methods for high rise buildings and has consulted and tested hundreds of high value facilities, including the Space Shuttle launch pad, military installations and the world?s most sophisticated computer rooms.
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, MAY 5, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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Collaboration: How Sefaira Strategies will help architects and engineers work together on their energy model
It's a well documented problem: During Concept and Schematic Design Architects are constantly exploring their design and trying new options while engineers and energy modellers, if engaged, struggle to keep up and make valuable contributions to design direction. The result can be frustration on both sides and more importantly, missed opportunities to integrate different aspects of the design.
Sefaira Strategies is deliberately designed to solve this problem by providing a live view into the cloud-based engineering analysis model for the architectural specialist.
This presentation provides a sneak peak into the Sefaira's Strategies product, currently in an Early Adopter Phase. We will show two workflows:
a) How engineers and specialists who start the energy modelling process on a project can share their analysis model with a limited set of controls for an architect to optimise
b) How architectural specialists and designers can quickly and easily optimise the envelope and space plan layout and share their analysis model with engineers to review and make HVAC changes to.
About the Presenter
Andrew Corney, PE, is a Product Director at Trimble's Sefaira. Andrew's role is to research the needs of the market and then layout the requirements and features of the product for Sefaira's software team to implement. Andrew is a Mechanical PE with 13 years experience as a High Performance Design leader.
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1. THU, MAY 12, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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Tropical Fa?ade Design using ETTV/OTTV Metrics
This webinar will present a new web-based tool for facade design in tropical climates. Facade design requirements for tropical climates are improving. For example, the Singapore Green Mark 2015 Pilot sets the bar higher for fa?ade design by challenging industry to improve minimum performance by between 5% and 10% dependent on your target rating.
As with any change to performance requirements, the first and most natural thing to question is how this will impact architectural and engineering design teams? Will this necessitate new design strategies to include more external shading, darker glass or higher performance glass products at greater cost?
In response to these new market conditions, Inhabit has seen these developments as an opportunity to speak to the challenges of high performance fa?ade design in a quick and intuitive way. This webinar will introduce you to this new approach, aiming to make the design process easier for local and International architects.
About the Presenter
Darren leads the Building Physics (ESD) practice within Inhabit. Based in Melbourne but active across South-East Asia and China, he is responsible for the growth and quality of Building Physics consulting services globally.
Holding two Masters Degrees in Corporate Environmental Management and Energy and Sustainable Building Design, Darren is a passionate advocate of intelligent passive design principles delivered through clear and concise communication.
Over the past 9 years, Darren has gained a wide range of technical and consulting expertise covering environmental and carbon management, corporate social responsibility, energy efficiency and sustainable building design.
Darren has also developed regionally specific design knowledge and a thorough understanding of the requirements of the various regulatory compliance frameworks, ie. LEED, Green Star, Green Mark.
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, MAY 19, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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Google Flux collaboration tools workshop
This is our second workshop on Flux and will include latest developments. Flux acts as an interchange point for sharing project data such as the architectural program, schematic designs, analysis models, and material schedules. Flux plugins work with popular design software, such as Rhino/Grasshopper, Excel, and Revit/Dynamo, to automate data transfer to and from Flux. In contrast, most design software today relies on manual file transfer, data conversion, and data-merge, which are tedious and error-prone tasks.
Presenter
Brian Ringley is a platform specialist on the Global Design Technology Team at Woods Bagot, where he leads efforts on computational workflows for model interoperability, environmental analysis, geometric rationalization, and architectural fabrication. Brian provides platform training, bespoke toolsets, and intensive support for Woods Bagot's globally significant projects. He has taught at the University of Cincinnati and the City University of New York, and currently teaches courses on industrial robotic arm and CNC machining for architectural manufacturing at Pratt Institute's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design (GAUD) program. Prior to Woods Bagot, he worked for R&Sie(n), Dellekamp Arquitectos, and Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Brian is an Authorized Rhino Trainer and, together with Zach Downey of CASE/WeWork, runs the design technology education website and podcast Designalyze.
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, MAY 26, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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Improve the Performance of Open Windows: Visualizing Sound
Fifty percent of energy usage within a building is from the ventilation system. But as a designer or architect, how do you naturally ventilate offices, classrooms and other room types? How can you treat the sound coming into a building to reduce noise levels? What window types work better than others?
Current understanding of the performance of open windows is low, mainly because the acoustics of these buildings is difficult to get to grips with. Here, Ze answers the key questions and helps you to better understand how to treat windows at the design stage - ultimately leading to improved energy usage and more efficient buildings.
The visualisation of sound; the acoustic performance of open windows; clever mathematics; incredible software; and our retro toy, the Slinky, all play a part in this forward thinking webinar.
About the Presenter
Ze Nunes is Founder of MACH Acoustics, a creative, forward-thinking consultancy based in Bristol, Ze is an inspirational leader and passionate about the role of acoustics in improving the built environment. He is committed to sustainability as a fundamental principle of good design. A proven innovator, he relishes in the interdisciplinary challenges of great architecture, always ready to break with convention in the quest for better answers. Ze is regularly invited to lecture at Bath University and is currently undertaking a PhD in the "Visualisation of Sound".
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, JUN 2, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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DIVA4Cloud: Cloud-Enabled Daylighting Simulation for Rhino/Grasshopper
DIVA-for-Rhino is a highly optimized daylighting and energy modeling plug-in for the Rhino/Grasshopper CAD environment. The plug-in was initially developed at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is now distributed and developed by Solemma LLC (http://www.solemma.net/). DIVA-for-Rhino allows users to carry out a series of environmental performance evaluations of individual buildings and urban landscapes including Radiation Maps, Photorealistic Renderings, Climate-Based Daylighting Metrics, Annual and Individual Time Step Glare Analysis, LEED and CHPS Daylighting Compliance, and Single Thermal Zone Energy and Load Calculations.
The presentation will preview the new beta components, explore real-world use cases, and investigate how simulations can run at large-scale directly via Grasshopper on the Parallel Works (https://parallelworks.com) cloud, removing desktop bottlenecks and delivering up to 1000x simulation iterations in the same time it takes to run just one.
Jon Sargent ? Solemma, LLC ? San Francisco, CA ? http://www.solemma.net
Jon is an architectural designer based in New York, and Chief Creative Officer at Solemma LLC. He specializes in shading optimization, thermal modeling, and computational design.
Neil Katz ? Skidmore, Owings & Merril ? Chicago, IL ? http://www.som.com
Neil Katz is an architect and Associate at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. He uses a ?computational design? approach to design, developing geometry, analyzing, designing in response to project goals, including environmental and sustainability.
Matthew Shaxted ? Parallel Works, Inc ? Chicago, IL = https://parallelworks.com
Matthew Shaxted, Founder and President of Parallel.Works, an award-winning web user interface expert working at the intersection of parallel computation, design and the built environment.
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, JUN 9, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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Urban Climate Simulation on a High-Performance Cloud
Urban architects and engineers need to design expanding cities that are resilient and healthy under existing and future climate scenarios. However, testing the climate related health performance of proposed urban developments remains challenging.
Klimaat's (http://www.klimaat.ca) urban climate simulation (UCS) evaluates climate performance of city development based on its form, surface characteristics and ecology. It generates urban climate maps to analyse performance of buildings or neighbourhoods against such metrics as perceived temperature, wind ventilation and solar shading characteristics. Explore how urban form, surface characteristics, and ecology inform urban climate and health issues like heat related mortality or wind dispersion of air pollutants.
UCS uses a high-performance cloud computing platform (https://parallelworks.com) that allows the process to scale massively on parallel computing clusters for high resolution, fast and remotely accessible iterative design.
Meiring Beyers, Ph.D., Co-founder Klimaat Consulting & Innovation, Guelph, Ontario, Canada -http://www.klimaat.ca
Meiring Beyers is a Co-founder of Klimaat where he consults on integration of climatic and environmental characteristics into sustainable design solutions. He has 15 years of experience in environmental physics. His work has included effects of windblown snow, integrating climate design and renewable energy technology in master planning and building climate performance design projects.
Matthew Shaxted ? Founder & President, Parallel Works, Inc ? Chicago, IL - https://www.parallelworks.com/
Matthew Shaxted is a civil engineer and an award-winning web user interface expert working at the intersection of parallel computation, design and the built environment. He has recently left SOM to co-found Parallel.Works (http://parallelworks.com), a startup focused on making supercomputing easy and cost effective for the architecture and engineering disciplines.
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Price: $15.00 USD
1. THU, JUN 16, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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EDSL TAS | Exclusive developer preview
This workshop will be taught by EDSL developers and provide an insight into the latest TAS updates. TAS Engineering is the complete Dynamic Building Simulation package. Tas Engineering has a modular design and is split into three main programs, the 3D Modeller, Building Simulator and Results Viewer. The intuitive Windows interface has features such as undo/redo, drag drop, context menus etc. all making the software more productive and easier to use. The program architecture clearly defines the simulation workflow process facilitating methodical working by the Engineer. TAS also develops a 2D CFD tool called Ambiens, an Airscoop and Sunscoop Builder and a Thermal Mass Builder.
Presented by EDSL TAS software experts and developers
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1. THU, JUL 21, 2016 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
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