This page is available to all students in the SU School of Architecture who wish to access software tutorials, web tools, troubleshooting resources, example files, and other materials that may aid the completion of coursework for Building Systems and other courses.
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Sefaira Design Performance Testing with SketchUp
30-day trial: The Sefaira education team provided this link for education customers to start a Sefaira trial. It is a 30-day trial to Sketchup Studio, which includes Sefaira.
Purchases can be made here:
Student license (optional – it is $55 per year): https://www.creationengine.com/sketchupstudent
Tutorials:
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ATHENA Impact Estimator for Buildings
In North America, the Athena Impact Estimator for Buildings is the only free software tool that is designed to evaluate whole buildings and assemblies based on internationally recognized life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Using the Impact Estimator, architects, engineers and others can easily assess and compare the environmental implications of industrial, institutional, commercial and residential designs — both for new buildings and major renovations.
https://calculatelca.com/resources/watch-tutorials/impact-estimator-for-buildings-tutorials/
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Developed by Kieran Timberlake, Tally is a Revit-integrated life cycle assessment tool to understand embodied environmental impacts of architecture. We DO have an educational license for this:
https://answerssu-jsm.syratlassian.edunet/wiki/x/vRYkDYwvqC
Grasshopper Main Site
The Grasshopper main site is a good source for free examples of script definitions, demonstrations and various tips/tutorials. It is recommended to stop here after you have familiarized yourselves with the GH Primer.
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Honeybee is in the family of energy and environmental analysis plugins for Grasshopper for Rhino. Honeybee supports detailed daylighting and thermodynamic modeling that tends to be most relevant during mid and later stages of design. Specifically, it creates, runs and visualizes the results of daylight and radiation simulations using Radiance and energy models using EnergyPlus/OpenStudio. It accomplishes this by linking the Grasshopper/Rhino CAD environment to these engines.
https://www.ladybug.tools/honeybee.html
EnergyPlus
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption—for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and process loads—and water use in buildings.
Energy Fundamentals
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtSMbRCHXHVGeqcgxxE7U_GY3eUnc2Lpp
Parametric Architecture
LunchBox is a plug-in for Grasshopper for exploring mathematical shapes, paneling, structures, and workflow. We have also introduced new components for general machine learning implementations such as regression analysis, clustering, and networks.
https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/lunchbox
Multi-Criteria Optimization
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