Building Performance Analysis and Carbon Footprint

Green Building Studio is launching a BIM platform independent training course focusing on hands on approach in integrating the existing available software within the context of Building Performance Analysis. The name of the course is “Carbon Neutral Building Design” and if you long to find more about it, the course outline is posted on their web.
I am really looking forward to this event, and just in case that any of ACA (former ADT, still can't get used to it!) users are wondering what happened to their gbXML plug-in, the word is out that it will be released in a couple of months.

Where did BIM go?

At the center of SOM’s visionary design process was AutoCAD®. “AutoCAD was incredibly valuable, and not just from a final documentation standpoint,” says Frechette. “We took individual parts of the building, modeled them in 3D in AutoCAD, extracted the information, and imported that data into a variety of other programs for analysis. It offers a common language that can be used in so many different areas.”

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Revit Architecture 2008 - Review

...it is important for BIM vendors like Autodesk to continue to invest some of their resources into broader R&D efforts rather than on simply improving what they have developed so far. The latter is undoubtedly important for day-to-day usability but it is the broader research and development that will lead to real innovation and ultimately shape the future of BIM.

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by Lachmi Khemlani, 27th of June 2007