BIM: Sustainable Design and Green Buildings

Course details

Many existing buildings are not energy efficient, resulting in high maintenance costs to the owners and end users and negative environmental impacts. The building industry can deliver energy-efficient buildings through sustainable design approaches right from the conceptual design stage of buildings.

This course with instructor Onyema Udeze focuses on sustainable design techniques during the early design stages of buildings, and is tailored around Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) requirements. Onyema covers sustainability and green concepts in building design and explains the LEED rating system. He shows how to use Autodesk Revit and FormIt to create conceptual designs, perform solar and lighting analyses, configure energy settings and carry out conceptual analyses, and more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - A demand for green and sustainable buildings
02 - What you need to know

1. Sustainability and Green Buildings

03 - What is sustainability
04 - What is a green building
05 - Overview of the LEED rating system
06 - Sustainable design tools - Buildings

2. Conceptual Energy Modeling in FormIt and Revit

07 - Adding location and levels in FormIt
08 - Creating groups and layers in FormIt
09 - FormIt and Revit interoperability
10 - Creating mass forms in Revit

3. Generating Conceptual Energy Analytical Models in FormIt and Revit

11 - Generating insight in FormIt
12 - Energy settings for conceptual energy analysis in Revit
13 - Generating conceptual energy analytical models in Revit

4. Conceptual Energy Analysis in Revit and Insight

14 - Overview of the Insight dashboard
15 - The 2030 Commitment
16 - Review of Insight cards - Construction and glazing
17 - Optimize the Revit model - Construction and glazing
18 - Review of Insight cards - Shading, lighting, and solar
19 - Optimize the Revit model - Shading, lighting, and solar
20 - Review of Insight cards - Other factors
21 - Optimize the Revit model - Other factors

5. Schematic Energy Modeling and Systems Analysis in Revit

22 - Modeling with Revit's Building Maker tools
23 - Modeling architectural elements in Revit
24 - Preparing a mechanical model in Revit
25 - Configuring energy and spaces settings in Revit
26 - Creating and reviewing energy analytical models in Revit
27 - Adding analytical systems and defining system zones in Revit
28 - Performing systems analysis in Revit
29 - Reviewing systems analysis reports in Revit

6. Advanced Energy Analyses in FormIt, Revit, and Insight

30 - Performing solar analysis in FormIt
31 - Overview of Insight Solar Analysis with Revit
32 - Performing Insight Solar Analysis with Revit
33 - Customizing Insight Solar Analysis results in Revit
34 - Overview of Insight Lighting Analysis with Revit
35 - Performing Insight Lighting Analysis with Revit
36 - Including artificial lights in Insight Lighting Analysis
37 - Creating perspective illuminance renderings in Revit
38 - Reviewing Insight Lighting Analysis with Revit
39 - Starting a Carbon Analysis in Revit
40 - Reviewing Carbon Analysis Results - Insight Tech Preview

7. Achieving Your LEED Targets

41 - Bringing it all together - Delivering green buildings
42 - Another look into the LEED rating system
43 - Convergence of green and smart buildings

Conclusion

44 - Learning more about green building technology