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  • Simulate 2050: How to Achieve a Net-Zero Built Environment

    Discover how advancing technology in modeling and simulation enables engineers and architects to design zero energy buildings

  • Employee Wellbeing at SimScale

    At SimScale, our dedicated Event and Office Manager, Preeti Dabelstein, pays close attention to our team members’ wellbeing. Her main responsibilities, among many others, include creating employee events, offering employee wellbeing assistance, and ensuring the office is a safe environment for everyone. With her managerial background in Employee Assistance Programmes in London, and experience of…

  • How To Avoid Overloading Your Team With Online Collaboration Tools

    Learn how to pick the best online collaboration tools for your business needs and avoid overwhelming team members with technology overload.

  • What’s the Value of a Cloud-Based Tool for Engineers?

    Cloud-based tools allow engineers to access their work instantly from almost anywhere and collaborate on projects in real-time.

  • Assessing LED Performance and Eco-Friendly Lighting Options

    More and more people are making environmentally-friendly purchasing decisions, in both the commercial and industrial sectors; lighting solutions are no exception. Historically, lighting systems used ample amounts of energy in order to illuminate a space, but modern technology has facilitated the widespread availability of eco-friendly lighting solutions, with LED lighting as a clear front-runner. While engineers…

  • SimScale’s Autumn Product Update

    As you know, here at SimScale we are continually updating our platform, and adding new features along the way; and because it’s all in the cloud our users benefit from immediate access. Check out our roadmap here for more information. This fall season, we’ve been quite busy with the release of our API integration and…

  • SimScale Develops API Integration and Virtual Wind Tunnel Solution for AEC

    Design simulation is a complex task. The amount of physics needed to capture the real-world performance of systems, whether they be buildings, cities, electronic components or cars can be daunting. The expectation to model faster, more accurately and cheaper is always growing as we push the limits of our knowledge and the boundaries of our…

  • Introducing the SimScale Founders

    SimScale was founded in 2012 by David Heiny, Vincenz Dölle, Johannes Probst, Alex Fischer, and Anatol Dammer. The five SimScale founders initially considered building a simulation consultancy together back in their university days, and it was through iterating and evolving this idea that the foundations of SimScale arose. In 2011, cloud computing and SaaS were…

  • Beta Release of SimScale’s New Online Post-Processor

    Engineering simulation is all about being able to test and validate your designs, especially in the early development phase. While much of your time is spent preparing your CAD model for simulation and defining the physics of the simulation case, the value of all this time investment is returned during post-processing. Post-processing is where you…

  • Thermal Performance of Lighting Solutions: LM-80 and TM-21 Lighting Standards

    Nowadays, many lighting technologies are available to the end-user. They range from the original, inefficient incandescent bulb to the latest and greatest customizable light-emitting diode (LED).  Of course, there are many pros and cons for each type of technology and each design application. They include input power/luminous power ratio, cost, operating lifetime, luminous power depreciation,…

  • Pedestrian Wind Comfort Around the World’s Tallest Church: Ulm Minster

    Contrary to popular belief that the tallest church in Europe resides in Cologne, the Ulm Minster (Ulmer Münster in German), located in Baden-Württemberg is actually the current record holder, standing at an impressive height of 161.5 m.  Not only is it the tallest church in the European continent, but also, the world. This is, of…

  • Cloud-Native Applications vs. Non-Native Cloud Offerings

    The emergence of SaaS solutions and cloud applications have brought the 21st-century innumerous innovations and hope for virtually never-ending possibilities, but it has also created some confusion for many. Cloud-based applications, as an umbrella term, can be broadly split into two categories; cloud-native and cloud-enabled. SimScale, for example, falls into the first category, as we…