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MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

ARCHITECTURAL DIGITAL SKILLSENVIRONMENTAL

ALEX & NADEEM10.2019

2 DIGITAL SKILLS2019-2020


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Green Building Studio(with Revit)


ALEX & NADEEM10.2019 ENVIRONMENTAL

What is it for?

Test options (Revit model)

to analyse:

Energy use intensityAnnual energy consumptionAnnual energy cost

with RevitGreen Building Studio01



To gain access you will need to register an Autodesk account (or use your existing one)

https://gbs.autodesk.com/GBS

01 with RevitGreen Building Studio




Model checklist

Walls, floors and roofs that form a closed box

Ceilings per room

Room annotation

Location

Create Energy model




Export settings

File > Export

gbXML

Use Energy Settings

Edit

Under ‘Advanced’ change room space data to ‘Spaces’




Login to Autodesk GBS

https://gbs.autodesk.com/GBS/Project

Create a new project

Set your project parameters




Import gbXML

Note: Make sure you have the most recent Flash installed




Sample analysis result




Export results as spreadsheet



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Insight 360(with Revit)



with RevitInsight 360

Checklist Walls, floors and roofs forms a close box

Ceilings per room

Room annotation

Location

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Lighting Analysis

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Lighting Analysis Settings for lighting analysis

(Or chose your own forwhat you are analysing)

Select the different timesof day for analysis

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Heating and Cooling

Lighting Analysis (sample of lighting analysis shown on the left)

Tips:Make your floors, walls and roofs transparent so you can see all the data.



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Insight and GBS Model.rvt



Revit model setup for BA3 techInsight and GBS Model.rvt03

This model was developed, with multiple floor levels, to have interchangeable panels (solid and glazed) for performance testing.

Note: modeled in Revit 2019please find Insight and GBS Model.rvt on moodle



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Materials Set Up (Revit)



04 Getting accurate propoerties in your modelMaterials Set Up

You can amend your materials and build ups of your walls in Revit using their library. This will calculate and give you accurate properties for your building elements.

Edit Type for your wall or glazing

Go to Edit for Structure to make your changes

Information on the thickness of your wall

Calculated overall U-Value for your wall



04 Getting accurate propoerties in your modelMaterials Set Up

In the structure editor, change your materials and thicknesses.

You can amend your materials in the materials library. There will already be a huge array of materials in this Library available to you with accurate data.

Go to the box with 3 dots adjacent to the material name to amend it’s properties.

Amend your values in the Thermal Tab

You may need to add a type of performance if it isn’t there.

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