[Bldg-sim] Is there a quick model for double skins facades?

Carol Gardner cmg750 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 16:45:18 PST 2010


Another tool to use to analyze double façade buildings is IESVE. You could
possibly pull it off during your free 30 day trial period.

Carol

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Matthias Haase <mathaase at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> you may want to use one of the following two online tools:
>
> http://www.bestfacade.com/textde/BestFacadeDSF_InternetTool/index.html
>
> http://designadvisor.mit.edu/
>
> Both should give you a good estimate with respect to energy, daylight and
> comfort.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> best regards
>
> Matthias Haase
> Ass. Prof NTNU, Department of Architectural Design, History, and Technology
> Trondheim, Norway
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Varkie C Thomas <thomasv at iit.edu> wrote:
>
>> The Manulife building in Boston has a double facade
>>
>> http://www.som.com/content.cfm/601_congress_street
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>>
>>
>>  We are doing a project in a pretty cold climate. The project design has
>> a really big glass façade facing south. One of the ideas to reduce
>> conductive heat loss is to create a double skin façade on the south side.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now I realize that this is going to take a fair amount of analysis work to
>> design it properly. What I was wondering is if there is a quick analysis
>> tool/methodology to tell if this is even feasible to go into more detailed
>> analysis.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated
>>
>>
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