Create more sustainable designs, right from

the start

 

Ecotect Analysis 2010 software is a comprehensive concept-to-detail sustainable analysis tool, providing a wide range of simulation and analysis functions on a single platform. Powerful web-based whole-building energy, water, and carbon analysis capabilities converge with desktop tools for visualising and simulating performance of the building model within the context of its environment. Users can interact with powerful 3D feedback to explore factors such as solar, shadows and reflections, and Daylighting. 

 

Shadows and Reflections

 You can display the sun’s position and path relative to the model at any date, time, and location. You can also display shadows over the model, isolate individual shadows from selected objects and assign colours in order to differentiate the effects of different objects or buildings. View how sunlight enters through windows and moves around within a space. Tag objects in the model as solar reflectors and track movement of reflections across the site.

 

 

Shading Design

 A wizard helps you design shading devices to meet complex shading requirements. It also generates a shape to optimally shade a window for any specified period. You can even generate cutting planes that follow the path of the sun in order to cut profiles and generate site solar envelopes. Once a complex shading system is modelled, quickly calculate how much solar radiation hits any part of the window over a period of time.

 

Solar Analysis

Visualise incident solar radiation on windows and surfaces to show differential incident solar radiation calculated over any period. Take advantage of site overshadowing to treat different parts of the façade.

Compare incident gains during different seasons, clearly showing variations in solar resources available to the building at times when heating or cooling is required. Calculate solar availability over the spaces around your buildings and in highly overshadowed urban sites.

 

Lighting Design

Calculate daylight factors and illuminance levels at any point in the model or over the analysis grid. Once you have calculated daylight factors in your model, use the advanced daylighting features in Autodesk Ecotect to determine potential savings due to daylight-linked lighting.

 

 

Right-to-Light

 You can analyse site projection angles, assess obstructions, calculate vertical sky components for any point or surface, and visualise the no-sky line in any space. Generate angled test planes from each window, façade being studied, or physically project and colour exactly which parts of a structure are infringing.

 

 

Acoustic Analysis

 

Acoustic analysis options range from simple statistical reverberation times to sophisticated particle analysis as well as ray tracing techniques.

 

 

 

Thermal Analysis

Calculate heating and cooling loads for models with any number of zones or types of geometry. You can assign detailed material properties to all objects as well as annual hourly operational schedules to occupancy, internal gains, infiltration, and individual items of equipment.

 

 

 

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