Case Study: HGA "Designing for LEED Platinum with Revit & IESVE"

A fantastic example of best practice integration of performance analysis for sustainable building design. This video case study looks at how HGA integrates the use of a range of IES Virtual Environment (VE) analysis & simulation software on a projected LEED Platinum project - Harbour College Science Complex, Long Beach California - in order to achieve a high-performing, low-energy building. The client required the use of BIM and the Revit 2009 integration with IESVE using our plug-in was used successfully to link to our Sustainability VE-Toolkit for very early stage iterative assessments, VE-Gaia for bioclimatic consideration and VE-Pro for detailed assessments. The original presentation was given at Greenbuild 2010 and a series of Questions & Answers follow at the end. Results track for Net Zero Energy; with a 44% reduction in energy consumption compared to ASHRAE 90.1-2004 with 1/3 supplied by the building integrated PV system and the remainder from the campus system. There is an estimated 50% reduction in energy cost. Analysis covered climate consideration, building mass & orientation, room layout, mixed-mode hybrid HVAC system, natural ventilation, wind energy, solar shading, PV solar panels, energy analysis, natural daylighting and much more... If you are having trouble reading the words - increase the resolution to 480p in the toolbar below the video.