The 2023 ASHRAE Lowdown Showdown Competition recently took place in Austin TX at the annual Building Performance Analysis Conference. The highlight of the conference is the...
Congratulations to the designers from DLR Group who won the ASHRAE LowDown Showdown Design Competition at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild (BPACS) in...
ASHRAE are one of the foremost industry pioneers in the decarbonization of the built environment and their new global Headquarters building in Atlanta, renovated to operate as a...
IES Ltd. has provided a major upgrade to the construction industry in California with the release of IESVE 2021 Feature Pack 2 Software. The new software design tool combines two...
Credit: image above provided by HNTB, the prime consultant for the Tampa International Airport Curbside expansion project. As we continue to highlight the excellent entries...
As we continue to highlight the great work of our VE User Award prize winners, we move on to our Runners-up. First up is Anthony Scaccia, Mechanical Engineer from TLC Engineering...
Meet Miles Martschink; the North American regional winner of our 2020 VE User of the year competition. To celebrate Miles’ winning entry, we wish to highlight the impressive...
IES were delighted to announce the academic winner for the 2020 IESVE User of the Year Competition: Osama Hasan from San Francisco State University. Osama, a graduate...
We recently announced the winners of our brand new VE User of the year competition. To celebrate them, we will be posting case studies of their entries over the coming weeks and...
CFD Simulation is an important tool for designing ventilation systems in critical healthcare facilities. Given a typical Operating Room (OR), ‘ASHRAE Standard 170 - Ventilation of...
As building design & HVAC system operation continues to react to the virus responsible for the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, there has been an increased focus on the...
The ASHRAE Heat Balance Method was first defined as the preferred method for Load Calculations in the 2001 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals, and it is now the most widely adopted...
This short article summarizes ten key daylighting & electric lighting metrics that building designers are required to consider for various international building rating...
Prediction of building energy consumption & associated carbon emissions are common tasks in the building design & compliance industry. However, the regional metrics that...
The December 2018 Feature of ASHRAE’s eSociety highlighted the updated weekday & weekend power consumption profiles for various office equipment. These new sub-hourly profiles...
Did you know there are up to three different approaches you can take to predicting condensation in a building design, using IESVE software? In this DiscoverIES post, we...