IES Blog

eSim, IBPSA-Canada’s biennial conference, brings together professionals, academics and students interested in building performance simulation. Being held, in Winnipeg, Canada on May 19 and 20, this year’s conference will focus on recent developments for modelling the physical processes relevant to buildings, methods for modelling whole-building performance (including integrated resource management, renewable energy sources and combined [...]

No Comments

Tags:Academic, BIM, Building, Environment, Renewables

Recently I have been looking at the weather data we use for dynamic simulations using the Gaia rapid analysis tools. When you consider what we used 10 years ago these datasets are a huge increase in resolution, but ….
The attached graphic shows a Mahoney analysis (this looks at monthly trends) of the CIBSE current & [...]

4 Comments

Tags:Building, CIBSE, climate

On April 22, 2010, the ‘Global Day of Conversation’ engaged more than 500 mayors and locally elected officials around the world in separate conversations within their local communities on issues of climate, energy and sustainability. This Global Day of Conversation illustrates the commitment of millions to make the natural environment a priority for 2010 and [...]

2 Comments

Tags:Building, climate, earth day, Environment, Sustainability

As an American spending time in Lucerne, Switzerland, I am thoroughly impressed with the level of environmental awareness in both the city of Lucerne and the country of Switzerland. There is a level of respect for the environment that can be seen in all levels of society, from the abundance of public transportation to the [...]

1 Comment