IES Blog

To Blog or not to Blog?

Posted : August 22, 2008 by Don, Category: sketchup

Well the answer is To Blog and therefore welcome to the new IES Blog. I’ve been volunteered by our Marketing Team to write the first entry. No pressure then.

So what can I write about that will wow you? Well, I don’t want to do that.

This Blog will not be about marketing, but about helping an amazing and passionate group of people at IES communicate with you in a different way. I am old enough to remember getting a new communication device called a Facsimile machine. It was fantastic as it was so much better than a Telex, but if you have your own Blog you have probably only seen a Fax in a museum.

What hasn’t changed is my, and the people at IES’ commitment to helping you design buildings that are more energy efficient. I have been working in this field for nearly thirty years and it is great to see our work being used on more and more projects throughout the world. So much so that the accumulated impact of your work with our software has avoided numerous power stations being built.

So IES are not jumping on the ‘green’ bandwagon – we don’t do ‘Greenwash’. We have been innovating at the vanguard of the sustainability movement since we started in 1994 and several of us for many years before that. We have made dramatic changes and we will continue to innovate and work with you to provide tools that help you achieve your sustainability objectives.

This is why I am so excited about our new plug-in to Google SketchUp. There are a vast number of SketchUp users throughout the world that use this fantastic tool at the early stages of the design process but who don’t have access to building analysis software. This reduces the potential for much better sustainable designs as the maximum impact is achieved at the early stages. Now with our plug-in SketchUp users have access to tools that facilitate analysis from the massing model and throughout the design process. This is a massive breakthrough and will revolutionise sustainable design.

I am also extremely excited about the ability this gives for anyone to undertake sustainable design for FREE. SketchUp is free and our VE-Ware is free. So anyone can build a SketchUp model and quickly assess its annual energy consumption and carbon emissions with internationally recognised building thermal simulation tools.

If you don’t already have SketchUp and VE-Ware then install them and try for yourself. You have nothing to lose.

Cya

Don

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