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“In need of some modernisation.”\n“Many period features.”
\n“Compact and bijou.”<\/p>\n
“In need of some modernisation.”
\n“Many period features.”
\n“Compact and bijou.”<\/p>\n
There are many ways to describe a building (particularly if you are an estate agent) but when it comes to pinning down exactly how much energy it’s using — and how energy use can be minimised — then you need to be much more precise.<\/p>\n
Many modern energy analysis tools approach this problem by having you construct a 3-D model.<\/p>\n
One problem with this approach is that each of these tools have their own interfaces, and you often need to spend a substantial amount of time learning how they work (and how to avoid their quirks).<\/p>\n
Another problem is that they are often closed systems. Even if you already have a 3-D model created somewhere else, it may not be possible to import it. And once your masterwork of a model is created in one tool, you generally cannot reuse it in another one.<\/p>\n
At GreenspaceLive we believe in collaboration. We also believe in second (and third, and fourth) opinions when searching for energy-efficient and low-carbon solutions.<\/p>\n
That’s why our approach to modelling (gModeller<\/a>) uses Google Sketchup<\/a>: no new tools or difficult paradigms to master, no awkward interfaces to learn your way around. Just Google’s ridiculously easy-to-use — and free — modelling tool.<\/p>\n To that, we’ve added the ability to export (and import) the model in gbXML<\/a> format. gbXML is an open standard, and is a vendor-neutral way of describing a building (it’s a bit like the PDF of the building-model world).<\/p>\n Model, export, analyse<\/p><\/div>\n Once you’ve made your building in Sketchup, export it in gbXML format and then import it into a wide variety of other tools for further analysis.<\/p>\n Of course, we provide our own cross-platform energy analysis tool, gEnergy<\/a>, and we hope you’ll try it first. But you’re not limited<\/em> to it. As gbXML is totally non-proprietary you can use it in any tool that supports it — see the comprehensive list<\/a> on the gbxml.org website.<\/p>\n Why not start analysing today?<\/p>\n – Donald I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “In need of some modernisation.” “Many period features.” “Compact and bijou.” There are many ways to describe a building (particularly if you are an estate agent) but when it comes to pinning down exactly how much energy it’s using — and how energy use can be minimised — then you need to be much more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,28,63,62,29,35],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-buildings","tag-gbxml","tag-genergy","tag-gmodeller","tag-modelling","tag-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Model,](\"https:\/\/greenspacelive.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Modelexportanalyse.jpg\" "\\"Model")