IES Launches Version 6.1 of Its Virtual Environment Building Performance Analysis Suite
New Model Transfer, Bio-Climatic, and Advanced Thermal, HVAC and Bulk Airflow Features
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software and consulting services for sustainable building design, today released version 6.1 of its software suite. New features, which improve technical functionality and user experience, include plug-in enhancements to facilitate better model transfer, a new Bio-Climatic feature within VE-Gaia, and advanced thermal, HVAC and bulk airflow features within VE-Pro.
These new features continue IES’ drive to open up the sustainable low-energy design power of its VE software to a wider user base, enabling the quantitative understanding of building energy performance to become a collaborative effort between architects and engineers. The IES VE technology facilitates energy-efficient building design, reduced CO2 emissions, and better utilisation of low-carbon technologies and renewable energy. It can be used on new builds, refurbishment projects and in-use evaluation to answer key sustainable design questions.
The 4-tier IES VE product structure (VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits, VE-Gaia and VE-Pro), and tight integration with Google SketchUp™, Autodesk® Revit®, Graphisoft® ArchiCAD® and other CAD programs allows building designers to quickly and easily undertake iterative and quantitative analysis directly from design models, right from the earliest stages.
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