Achieving Excellence with IESVE Essential Knowledge Series
IESVE for Early Stage Design & Planning
On-Demand Webinar
We’re delighted to announce the fourth instalment of our ‘Achieving Excellence with IESVE’ essential knowledge series, covering the latest need-to-know industry developments, trends and technology for building performance modelling. So far this series has considered Overheating and Compliance with Part O, the latest innovations in ApacheHVAC and Measurement & Verification and Building Operation Data Analysis using IESVE.
This instalment looked at building performance at the earliest stages of your project, covering Interoperability, Solar and Daylighting. Planning is a key part of any project in the UK, with more focus than ever on the building performance, its impact on the environment and of course neighbouring buildings and their occupants. Considering these impacts at the earliest stages brings robustness to the design and provides the best opportunity to achieve your projects targets, including net zero.
This session will cover:
- Introduction to interoperability platforms and importing models into IESVE
- Revit, SketchUp, Rhino - gbXML and Pollination
- Solar and Daylighting capabilities within IESVE
- Case Study: multi residential apartment block:
- Easy import of models from SketchUp
- Quickly setting up for early stage analysis
- Existing Neighbouring Buildings
- Shadow analysis
- Solar analysis:
- for amenities
- for adjacent buildings
- Daylight analysis:
- for adjacent buildings
- Proposed Buildings
- Shadow analysis
- Solar analysis:
- for amenities
- for adjacent buildings
- Internal Daylight analysis:
- for proposed building
- Overview of standards:
- BRE209
- BS EN 17037
View the on-demand webinar
Speakers

Niall Gibson
Head of VE Sales (UK), IES

Douglas Bell
Consultancy Manager - BIM & Lighting (VE Consulting), IES