Sustainable Design with Revit Architecture

The ability to perform a whole building evaluation in terms of energy, water and carbon emissions early in the design process is vital in any 'green' building design process. Building Information Modelling is incredibly beneficial as it allows designers to create informed design decisions covering geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, quantities and properties of building components utilising a centralised model.

BIM, supported by the appropriate technology, has the potential to reduce the cost of sustainable design by making the information required for informed sustainable design solutions and analysis simply available as part of the evolving design process. Revit Building produces drawings with the added advantage of parametric change technology allowing for changes and consistency to be achieved throughout. Schedules can be produced directly from this central model allowing for material reuse, recycling, reduced waste inefficiency, and better organised comparisons between design options.

By only having to draw our model once, we can we can ream off elevations, sections and visual representations at the click of a button - resulting in more actual time to design.

Efficient specification management

The environmental impact of extracting, processing and transporting building materials makes careful selection an important aspect of sustainable design. Revit helps designers automate the coordination of project specifications.

Increased energy efficiency

Energy analysis is crucial to a building design strategy. Revit can provide detailed and reliable design information to complete energy analysis early in the design cycle, enabling designers to make decisions about how the building is placed on a site and evaluate daylight options for energy savings.

Supports eco-design principles

• Understanding local climate, culture, and place

• Understanding the type of building

• Reducing the required consumption of resources

• Using free/local resources and natural systems

• Using man-made systems efficiently

• Applying renewable energy generation technologies

• Offsetting negative impacts

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