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Tag : Residential
Sep 9th 2025
VE User Award – Asia Honourable Mention: Najib Bin Hanapi

Congratulations to Najib, who received an Honourable Mention in our VE User of the Year awards for this optimised housing design that works with the Malaysian climate to...

Jan 27th 2025
Case Study: Parametric Simulation Optimises Performance

An EU project has demonstrated the power of IESVE’s Parametric Simulation feature for efficient analysis and optimisation of building design choices to reduce energy consumption,...

Feb 27th 2024
SPHERA: Sustainability Project Energy Modelling with IESVE

SPHERA has been successfully using the IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) for their clients’ sustainability projects, primarily for bioclimatic simulations and energy...

Jan 11th 2024
Ben Pettitt in Build in Digital: Maybe it's time for office landlords to go home

IES’ Ben Pettitt recently featured in Build in Digital, with an article discussing how landlords can make use of existing design, energy compliance or BIM models to convert vacant...

Apr 17th 2023
Digital Twins Verify A-Rated Affordable Homes

Working in partnership with Ó Cualann Cohousing Alliance and Trinity College Dublin, IES used their Digital Twin technology to assess 46 A-rated designed homes within an...

Apr 3rd 2023
Model Validation Proves IESVE Predicts Real Building Performance

IES were asked through the University of Strathclyde to take part in an Empirical Whole Model Validation Twin House Experiment for the IEA-ECB Programme’s Annex 71 project. This...

Mar 30th 2023
Dublin City Council & IES: Whole-Life Carbon Digital Twin

IES developed a digital twin of a social housing block in Dublin and assessed the whole-life carbon impact of four retrofit strategies over three time periods aligned with...

Aug 1st 2022
Sustainable energy for the island of Inishmore with a community microgrid: Part 1

Ireland’s climate and energy ambition is reflected in the Government target set under the Climate Action Plan 2021 to increase the proportion of renewable electricity to up to 80%...

Feb 2nd 2022
IESVE Helps IBC Engineering Achieve LEED Gold at St. Anthony’s

IBC Engineering Services, Inc. (IBC) is a full-service MEP engineering firm specialising in high-performance buildings that require sophisticated engineering solutions. In 2018...

Feb 26th 2021
CIBSE TM59 Assessment: Holland Park

Designed by architects, HAUS Collective, Moda Living’s Holland Park development will see Glasgow’s former Strathclyde Police headquarters transformed into a 16-storey development...

Nov 19th 2020
Fair Haven United Church Homes Society, Vancouver

Edge Consultants used the IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) to carry out detailed energy modeling for this residential project in Vancouver, helping it to achieve LEED Platinum...