Rapid Energy Modeling
Rapid energy modeling is a streamlined process that helps building professionals and owners understand, analyze, and estimate building energy consumption.
- Run building energy assessments and carbon reduction analysis with a smaller budget, shorter timeframe, and less initial data.
- Assess expected building performance and identify areas for improvement with Building Information Modeling solutions such as Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and Autodesk® Revit® MEP.
Easy Integration into Your Workflow
Rapid energy modeling involves capturing existing building conditions, converting them into 3D models, and applying carbon reduction analysis and simplified simulation.
- Capture: Capture existing building conditions in the form of photos, satellite images or 2D plans. Transform them into a wireframe using reference measurements or geospatial and structural information.
- Model: Convert the wireframe into a 3D model with Building Information Modeling solutions, using either of these two modeling techniques:
- Conceptual modeling using massing
- Detailed modeling using design elements such as walls, floors, windows, roof and room/space
- Simulate and Analyze: Use Autodesk® Revit® Conceptual Energy Analysis features to simulate performance from within Revit Architecture or Revit MEP. Use Autodesk® Green Building Studio® to produce energy consumption, carbon neutrality and renewable potential reports.
Learn How Rapid Energy Modeling Can Help You
Rapid energy modeling can be applied in a variety of ways depending on how much initial data you have to work with, and the level of detail you want in your results. Explore four use cases in which rapid energy modeling can help.
Evaluate the Lifecycle Impact of Retrofit Decisions
For Designers, Architects, Contractors, and Construction Companies
Rapid energy modeling enhances early stage decision-making by providing a preview of lifecycle performance. In only a few hours and with minimal data, you can evaluate various design alternatives for intended retrofits, and identify solutions that optimize lifecycle impact.
Prioritize Retrofit Investments and Energy Efficiency Measures
For Building Owners, Facility Managers, Tenants, and Real Estate Developers
With rapid energy modeling, understand and compare potential retrofit and renovation options, and drill down into the energy model of existing buildings to make post-analysis recommendations on energy efficiency upgrades.
Evaluate Your Entire Building Portfolio
For Building Owners, Property Managers and Tenants with Large Portfolios
Rapid energy modeling helps you estimate the energy consumption and carbon footprint of an entire set of buildings. This workflow is ideal for owners and property managers of retail, universities, government, corporations, and other entities with large building portfolios.
Use rapid energy modeling to assess factors such as energy costs and carbon emissions across several buildings, and identify outliers as well as buildings with high potential for improvement and ROI.
Streamline Asset Rating
For Insurers, Financiers, Regulators and Real Estate Brokers
Streamline the asset rating process using rapid energy modeling. With minimal data, get an accurate picture of metrics such as energy use intensity (EUI) and how they affect asset rating—and ultimately factors such as sale price, lease rate and insurance rates.
The rapid energy modeling workflow scales easily to thousands of buildings, providing asset-rating professionals the information they need for accurate assessments, while overcoming prohibitive costs.
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