The issues of sustainability are well known. But how can we use Revit to aid our design processes and meet compliance requirements?

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1 The issues of sustainability are well known. But how can we use Revit to aid our design processes and meet compliance requirements? Buildings: Consume 40% of energy Emit 50% of greenhouse gases Key Issues: Energy Carbon Emissions Embodied Energy Solar Access Ventilation

2 Water Waste Ratings Schemes Green Star ABGR LEED Government Compliance Requirements You need to comply with: BASIX SEPP65 (NSW) NATHURS The LEED spreadsheet

3 This spreadsheet can be modified for use with other ratings/compliance schemes. BASIX

4 BASIX Checklist: You have a BIM Use It! Put Revit at the centre of your processes; but Not everything has to be Revit. Sun Studies Shadow plans and elevations Animated sun study Export AVI Export JPGs Multi-day Single-day Use Massing for context Use a View template to toggle AMG Settings Use SketchUp Render for shadows from foreground buildings, internal sun study

5 Trace with detail lines/filled regions and export You cannot overlay views for new and existing shadows Setting the place Setting True North Casting shadows to topo/workplane/floors Setting Place in Revit Creating a userdefined location Set through: Settings -> Place and Locations Advanced Model Graphics Rendering Daylight Saving can be set, but check its applicability on the study dates. Setting True North What is Project North and what is True North?

6 Rotate True North tool Testing SEPP65/BASIX/LEED performance Scheduling performance Room, Space and Area objects Still Sun Studies Setting up the study

7 Animated Sun Studies Setting up the study Once Setup, Preview Solar Study Appears in Advanced Model Graphics Controls on Options Bar Export Animated Solar Studies File -> Export -> Animated Solar Study This can be an AVI animation or; JPG, BMP etc

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9 Schedule of Demolished Materials Setting up a Phase Filter Understanding Phasing Applying Phase concepts to Schedules and Material Takeoffs Creating the Material Takeoff Filtering for unwanted materials Area Schemes, Area Plans and Scheduling Area Schemes Area Schemes provide the means to look at areas in different ways. Areas in different schemes are not double-counted. Set up an Area Scheme for ESD compliance Area Boundaries Area Boundaries are the borders to Areas Set the Workset before you create the Area Plan Area Boundaries are Model Lines. Area Boundaries can be cut and pasted between Area Plans Area Boundary Tips Turn off Apply Area Rules, (and keep turning it off!) Area Boundaries do not need to perfectly closed or continuous. Adjust Visibility/Graphics settings in a working Area Plan to make the boundaries easier to place Test by placing areas, and by isolating the boundaries. Use Automatically create Area Boundaries when

10 creating the Area Plan but set the Workset first! Color Schemes Set up Color Schemes to work with Area Plans and Plans (and now Elevations and Sections) Color Schemes are the best way to detect errors and see your progress in assigning the areas. The colours are create automatically by Revit as it finds new values in the model The colors can be changed Area Plans can only create a Color Scheme based on the values of Areas Floor Plans, and Sections can only create a Color Scheme based on the values of Rooms Rooms are not Areas and Areas are not Rooms MEP Spaces are related to Rooms Setting up Parameters to Filter

11 Shared Parameters Project Parameters Area Plan with Color Fill

12 Scheduling BASIX Compliance with Revit Exporting Schedules to Excel Techniques for keeping it synchronised

13 Presentation Views Explain your ESD proposals

14 View Studies Bring in the big guns: Ecotect Ecotect knows climate!

15 Ecotect with Radiance

16 Ecotect with Airpak by Fluent CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics Embodied Energy & Carbon Inventory of Carbon and Energy (ICE): Rodd Perey, Design Technology Director, Architectus