Green Buildings Design Automation - National Solar Radiation Database Standards


Green Buildings Design Automation - National Solar Radiation Database Standards

Objective

Manual calculations

Manual modifications to design to accommodate results based on analysis

Knowledge required to manipulate map data to generate required layout

Less optimized calculation

Solution

Automation of energy calculation based on Passive house design principles

Automatic modification to Revit model based on the results from energy calculations

Calculation of shading vectors for various weather stations using predefined NSRDB weather data

Automatic building of roof layout based on data from Pictometry Java API including automatic detection of RTU and obstructions

Automatic solar panel layout based on roof layout, obstacles and shadow area

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Business Benefits

  • Reduction of design cycle time by 50%
  • Optimized design solution
  • Faster design iterations