[Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy

[Stirling Walkes]

Thanks for the tip Ronan.  Did you create a room schedule within Revit to monitor rooms and loads within rooms to ensure that they have been carried over properly?  Or have you found that it isn't worth the time?
 
Regards,
 
Stirling


>>> "CARNEY Ronan" <Ronan.CARNEY at projectservices.qld.gov.au> 2/22/2009 5:13 PM >>>
I strongly advise you not to use this option. If Revit, looses a room, it's likely that you'll not even notice it. I created a full model of a 50million project within Revit from the Architectural model. Loaded it into IES and lost 75% of all rooms, that's over 200 rooms, all lost. 
My solution is, purchase the software, draw all model from sratch within IES of Sketchup, Stay away from IES with Revit, it always falls over or is incorrect or requires 3 or 4 times of repetitive data entry e.g. construction properties.

Kind Regards
Ronan Carney

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From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org on behalf of Stirling Walkes
Sent: Mon 23/02/2009 12:56 AM
To: Varkie C Thomas; Bldg-Sim
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy


REVIT MEP comes with the IES VE load analysis built in. But I think you need to have the full version to analyze the energy consumption based on systems and lighting etc.

I have found that as long as the spaces have been set up correctly by the architect in Revit generating the geometry for the energy model is done by Revit and takes a couple of minutes to determine interior vs exterior walls/windows etc. (depending on the size of the building and the capacity of the computer doing the calculations).  The calculations will generate a room by room load calculation which can be imported back to the model and allocated to the individual spaces.

Vs doing an import of the Autocad drawing and tracing the shape, locating windows etc.  Time savings can be significant.

However, I have only yet used it for loads for equipment sizing and not for an energy simulation.

Regards,



V. Stirling Walkes, P.Eng., LEED AP
Partner
SMS Engineering Ltd.
770 Bradford Street 
Winnipeg MB R3H 0N3 Canada
phone: 204.775.0291
fax: 204.772.2153
Swalkes at smseng.com 


>>> Varkie C Thomas <thomasv at iit.edu> 2/21/2009 4:22 PM >>>


I have been asked by an ME/AE firm to check out IES-VE Energy.  This firm makes extensive use of the Revit programs for design.

I downloaded the trial version of  'IES-VE-Ware/Toolkits 5.9 Setup' and tried to run/install it and I got the following message:  "You require an installation of Google Stetchup 6, etc., to install VE-Ware"

I downloaded 'IES<VE>5.9 SketchUp Plug-in Setup' and tried to install this and got the following message:  "You must have a copy of IES<Virtual Environment>5.9 installed before attempting to install this plug-in"

I am interested in trying out IES-VE Energy component only.  Is there a trial version for this?  Is there a tutorial that I can refer to when trying to learn how to use this program?

The IES-VE website shows 2 engineering clients - Syska Hennessy and Vanderweil Engineering.  How many building projects have been analyzed with IES-VE for energy performance by US AE firms?  

Why use IES-VE-Energy when DOE2.1E and eQUEST are free and TRACE and HAP are inexpensive with excellent customer support?

Is there statistical data by type & size of project, on the energy programs used in the US for code compliance and LEED certification?

Varkie Thomas

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