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Author: Naghman Khan

  • PRP Architects Develop Customized Workflow for Complex Geometry With SimScale

    Few architecture firms know as much about urban regeneration as PRP. The interdisciplinary skillset they offer clients range from master planning and urban design to sustainability, landscape, and project management. This enables PRP to apply their holistic approach to the design and delivery of homes and places of varying scale, complexity, and diversity.  PRP was…

  • Monodraught Develops Sustainable HVAC Products With CFD-Led Design Process

    Monodraught is unique in the sense that they are both manufacturers and consultants. They develop high-performing, low-energy building products and provide design services for engineering a sustainable built environment. They not only design ventilation, cooling, and heating systems but they also install and maintain these systems for healthier occupants in public buildings including schools and…

  • Solar Radiation: How to Model and Evaluate With SimScale

    Professionals in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry understand how critical their building designs are to the comfort of occupants and building energy performance. Solar radiation has a significant impact on the thermal aspects of buildings and structures, in both internal and external environments. SimScale has now empowered architects and engineers to model the…

  • Model Thermal Bridging With Engineering Simulation in the Cloud

    Thermal bridging has a significant impact on the thermal and energy performance of buildings and structures.  Heat (and hence, energy) is conducted through solid elements of a buildings’ structure and is lost through the envelope. This is often unaccounted for in the original energy and thermal design calculations because it is difficult to predict and…

  • The Building Design Process: Simulation at Every Step

    Architects, engineers, and professionals in the construction industry face mounting pressure to achieve low-energy, low-carbon benchmarks while keeping costs consistent. Digital transformation is the only way forward. Optimal building design is best reached, quickly and cost-effectively, by leveraging new technologies. An emerging class of analytical tools, powered by high-performance cloud computing, building modeling, and simulation…

  • SimScale Launches Technical White Paper On Simulating Outdoor Thermal Comfort

    SimScale has enabled architects and engineers around the world to innovate faster with easy and accurate computational fluid dynamics, or CFD software, in the cloud. Since 2012, SimScale users have been capitalizing on the unique capabilities and various analysis types with the platform for modeling pedestrian wind comfort, building aerodynamics, air quality, and indoor thermal…

  • Thornton Tomasetti Develops a Digital Wind Tunnel App for Early-Stage Design

    Thornton Tomasetti is a global engineering and design consultancy with over 1,500 architects, engineers, and professionals in fifty offices worldwide. They work on some of the most innovative and award-winning buildings, structures, and infrastructure projects globally.  At the heart of their unique set of skills is a CORE Studio team, who research and develop novel…

  • Evaluating Design With BIM Modeling and Simulation

    BIM is a shared project that uses 3D modeling to combine all available data on a building or structures in one digital project. With so many separate but interrelated pieces of information pertaining to a building’s design —measurements, bills of quantities, building standards, etc— the BIM process coalesces these into a “single source of truth”…

  • Net Zero Building Design & Cloud-Based Simulation

    There was a time when sustainability was regarded as an additional consideration in a business strategy, perhaps to lower operating costs or gain a reputational advantage. But today, sustainability is at the helm, driving architecture and engineering. With government commitments for a low-carbon future, regulations will ensure that net zero building design starts to dominate…

  • Simulation for Sustainable Architecture

    “The earlier you use simulation in the design process the more chances you have to produce a sustainable building,” says Carlos Bausa Martinez, Sustainability Team Lead at Zaha Hadid Architects. As an internal division of the world-renowned architecture firm, the Sustainability Team at Zaha Hadid is dedicated to ensuring environmentally-conscious solutions for many of the…

  • The 3 Biggest Trends in Building Simulation

    Architecture trends for 2021 reflect a growing emphasis on sustainable design and ecological impact. A drive for net-zero energy consumption means sustainability assessments are moving more from voluntary building performance evaluation to compliance using new mandated policies. Meaningful assessments of a building’s energy performance are becoming increasingly important. In addition to this, buildings are expected…

  • Environmental Design for Building the Future

    A future built environment is coming where 80% of the global population will live in densely packed cities. Global megatrends, including urbanization, an aging population, digital transformation, and, more recently, changing work patterns and behaviors, will place unprecedented demands on our buildings, cities, and infrastructure. Architecture and environmental design used to be about form, space…