[Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy
Varkie C Thomas
thomasv at iit.edu
Mon Feb 23 11:23:19 PST 2009
Thanks for the responses and telephone calls. Most of them were sent to me directly. The general picture I got was that TRACE700 does a better job of importing Revit data than IESVE. Importing and other problems can be fixed. Is the IESVE program in metric only?.
Varkie
----- Original Message -----
From: Stirling Walkes <Swalkes at smseng.com>
Date: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:11 am
Subject: RE: [Bldg-sim] IES-VE Energy
To: Varkie C Thomas <thomasv at iit.edu>, Bldg-Sim <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>, CARNEY Ronan <Ronan.CARNEY at projectservices.qld.gov.au>
> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org on behalf of Stirling
> WalkesSent: 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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