getting started with sefaira for sketchup - real time analysis
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Simple step by step tutorial for using Sefaira for SketchUp to design high performance buildingsTRANSCRIPT
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Sefaira for SketchUpTutorial
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Start by creating a flat surface
Set location to New York, and space use to Office
After you create a floor, you see request to continue making a
building
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Let’s make a small building
Square footage based on floor area
History tab shows energy breakdown evolution as your
design evolves and changes over time
Dials showing Energy Use Intensity,
breakdown & daylight
Change units between Imperial & Metric
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Ensuring your design is being interpreted correctly
Click entity palette show entity types buttom to see
how entities are interpreted
Interpretation is shown overlaid on the model
itselfIf we have
misinterpreted an entity, you can click the radio button to reassign entities
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Now, let’s add glazing on the south facade
Green axis points to true north.
Spatial daylight autonomy line appears as does glare,
if you click the Glare button. The two lines
overlap suggesting most daylight is too intense
The Daylight dial shows that the space is underlit, and has significant glare.
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Let’s minimize glare by recessing the south facing windows
Now you will note that glare reduces with daylight
remains unchanged
The Daylight dial shows that while space is mostly underlit, 25% of the space
has good daylight
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You can also visualize daylight by clicking “Open Visualization”
This chart shows you hours in a year when daylight levels exceed 300 lux on the work surface, defined
at 85 cm above floor
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Now, let’s try to improve our design. First we will reduce the energy use
Under the element performance tab, you will see that wall conduction is
the worst offender in driving heating energy
use
By clicking the flow from the element, you can
increase wall insulation and reduce heating
energy use
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How else can we adjust properties?
You can click the properties tab, and have
access to detailed properties for all design
elements
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Interested in learning more?Reach out to us: [email protected]
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About SefairaSefaira was founded in 2009 to help the building industry create more energy efficient buildings.
Sefaira’s offers the industry’s only cloud platform capable of analyzing new building designs in real-time. This allows design professionals analyze and compare energy efficiency strategies for new build or retrofit projects, so that they can select the strategies most applicable to their projects. This way, Sefaira helps users maximizing capital efficiency, minimizing energy consumption and creating high performing sustainable building designs at low cost.
From Sefaira's offices in London and New York our team of 40 dedicated employees support more than 200 clients across the world.
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