In this month?s IBPSA-NYC meet, we?re continuing the conversation on innovative ways to visualize building performance data.
IBPSA-NYC?s new series of talks titled ?Innovative Ways to Visualize Building Performance Data? explores an often under discussed topic of visualizing performance data to tell a good story. Hope you can join us in this conversation!
IBPSA-USA New York Regional Chapter presents:
Innovative Ways to Visualize Building Performance Data II
Location: TBD
Date & Time: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 6:00-8:00 PM.
6:00-6:30 PM Networking
6:30-7:00 PM Data Visualization at Urban Scale - NY Energy Consumption Map
Bianca Howard, Ph.D Candidate, Sustainable Engineering Studio, Columbia University
7:00-7:15 PM Q & A
7:15-7:45 PM CityEngine - GIS Based Data Visualization for Urban Scale Developments
Patrick Gahagan, Solutions Engineer, ESRI, New York City
7:45-8:00 PM Q & A
Click here to register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6911528247243170305
Please Note: There is a limit of 100 concurrent callers.
Descriptions
Presentation 1
Title: Data Visualization at Urban Scale - NY Energy Consumption Map
Bianca Howard, Ph.D Candidate, Sustainable Engineering Studio, Columbia University
Bianca?s talk will discuss the methods behind estimating annual building energy consumption for New York City and the many iterations of visualizing this information. She will also discuss the analysis for estimating the potential for Combined Heat and Power at both the building and "microgrid" scales which illustrates how the building energy consumption estimates were utilized in her research.
About the Speaker: Bianca Howard is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in mechanical engineering in the Sustainable Engineering Lab of Professor Vijay Modi at Columbia University. She is also a trainee in the National Science Foundation IGERT ?Solving Urbanization Challenges Through Design?.
Her research interests are in energy systems and evaluating various methods of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Recently her work has been focused on the viability of combined heat and power in New York City as well as estimating emissions reductions from changes in the electricity load profile at the hourly time scale. The evaluation of combined heat and power at both the building and microgrid scale has its foundations in previous works of estimating building energy consumption for the 5 boroughs.
Ms. Howard received her Bachelor?s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in 2009 and her Master?s of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University in 2011.
Presentation 2
Title: CityEngine - GIS Based Data Visualization for Urban Scale Developments
Patrick Gahagan, Solutions Engineer, ESRI, New York City
Esri's procedural or rule-based modeling software City Engine allows design professionals to be creative and still meet sustainability goals. City Engine delivers a full suite of industry-leading procedural tools to aggregate geospatial data, layout and edit street networks, generate and modify buildings, and analyze urban planning projects.
Building Performance Simulation can be achieved in short order using City Engine and templates that are created by the City Engine team. The Redlands Redevelopment example is one of these templates and showcases an advanced set of analytical tools created in response to the growing need for measurable, performance-based design.
This presentation will provide an introduction to the City Engine interface, and then focus on some of the eco-criteria and other performance targets included with the Redlands Redevelopment example. The reports generated by City Engine on these performance targets provide instant feedback to the designer, and enables the rapid launch of community design and implementation strategies.
About the Speaker: Patrick Gahagan is a Solutions Engineer for Esri based in New York City. For many years he supported clients in NYC government, but has always kept a specialty in 3D GIS. Patrick now supports clients in the AEC and general 3D markets just about full time. He was one of the early internal adopters of City Engine, and has become an unofficial east coast member of the 3D team at headquarters.
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Pallavi Mantha
Arup NY