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EcoDesigner in the Press
GRAPHISOFT: Visualizing Data Into 3-D Models
by Miklós Svéd, The Epoch Times
"GRAPHISOFT’s answer to the BEM initiative, how to seamlessly integrate and forecast the effects of all the variables that weather, sunlight, shading, climate, and the ground play on a structure, is the next wave of development for this firm and its competitors. It’s called EcoDesigner."
Super-low Energy Building Design with BIM
by Miklós Svéd, ArchiMAG
"40% of global raw material consumption, as well as carbon pollution, is related to the building industry. As the conductors of building activity, it is the architects’ responsibility to design more energy-efficient buildings."
EcoDesigner Awarded by World Architecture News (WAN)
by Hanna Stolt, ArchiMAG
"Graphisoft Eco Designer Graphisoft’s EcoDesigner energy modeler software has been Highly Commended by World Architecture News (WAN) at the annual WAN Product Awards 2010. The winners were announced on January 17 in collaboration with the BAU trade fair in Munich. The WAN Product of the Year Award is a unique, worldwide award scheme to showcase new and innovative products, materials and details available from the construction industry."
EcoDesigner
by Vesa Putkonen, ArchiMAG
"EcoDesigner is an add-on to ArchiCAD that enables the leveraging of data from a building information model for a topic of current interest: evaluation of the energy consumption and energy conservation of a building. This article first discusses the work process used with the program and then comments on a trial run."
EcoDesigner & Virtual Building Explorer
by Martyn Day, AECMAGAZINE, US
"Originating from Hungary in 1982, GRAPHISOFT's ArchiCAD is the most mature 3D Building Information Modelling solution on the market. With a very loyal installed base over Europe and America, the company regularly produces updates and add-ons. Martyn Day evaluates two of the latest enhancements."
EcoDesigner
by David Chadwick, CAD User AEC Magazine, US
"GRAPHISOFT's EcoDesigner has a neat twist with its energy evaluation results, says David Chadwick. As well as showing you how your proposed building will perform, it will also graphically illustrate how many hectares of rainforest will be needed to absorb the carbon dioxide you will be churning out."
EcoDesigner
by Miklos Sved, V1 Magazine, Germany
"Architectural design decisions can significantly impact energy efficiency and can result in substantial operational cost reductions over the lifecycle of a building. To achieve these benefits a new software has been developed that helps designers and architects to model building energetics performance at the critical early design stage. Now design options can easily be evaluated prior to construction for performance efficiency. EcoDesigner is a next generation design tool that brings energy efficiency to the forefront of architectural design. Let "Green" Become an Organic Part of the Architectural Design Workflow."
Green BIM: Sustainable Design with Building Information Modeling
by Matthew Brewster, achitosh, US
"EcoDesigner is a new plug-in for GRAPHISOFT's BIM application, ArchiCAD. As soon as a design takes shape, comparative energy reports can be generated with a click. The resulting reports give feedback about the buildings energy usage, yearly utility costs, and carbon footprint."
AIA: Talking to Viktor Varkonyi about EcoDesigner
by Anthony Frausto-Robledo LEED AP, achitosh, US
"EcoDesigner, which will be released at the end of May, is a GRAPHISOFT add-on software module to its award-winning BIM application ArchiCAD. What primarily sets this application apart from similar energy analysis applications is that it works directly inside ArchiCAD, thereby eliminating the need to export BIM data out to another software package in order to obtain feedback on the design with respect to energy."
Sustainable Design Tools Exhibited at AIA 2009
by Lachmi Khemlani, AECbytes, US
"One of the most significant announcements related to sustainable design at the AIA show this year came from GRAPHISOFT, which launched a new energy evaluation tool, EcoDesigner, that works inside of ArchiCAD. It is the only analysis application so far that is fully integrated within a BIM application, allowing ArchiCAD users an easy way to analyze the energy performance of a proposed building design in the earliest design phases, when the most critical decisions that influence energy performance are made."
Event Report: AIA 2009 Convention and Design Exposition
by Kenneth Wong, cadalyst, US
"GRAPHISOFT is adding an energy analysis feature to ArchiCAD, its flagship architectural design solution. Made available via a button integrated in the ArchiCAD interface, GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner is literally a single-click solution."
GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner - 'Green' Becomes Organic Part of the Architectural Design Workflow
by PRNewswire, ARCHITECHTONLINE
"GRAPHISOFT EcoDesigner is an integrated, easy-to-use energy evaluation tool for architects. EcoDesigner enables architects to control the energy consumption of their buildings, and sets new standards in sustainable design, making ArchiCAD the leading software solution for contemporary architectural demands."
