<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ecotect has a lot of power for sun penetration studies and as a tool to export and then import into Radiance. I wouldn't use it for thermal simulation (we use IES primarily and DOE-2.2 occasionally). The stereographic shading diagrams are accurate, but the tabular data that is reported is incorrect when assessing Daylight Glare Control under Australia's Green Star. This credit requires you to assess the portion of business hours a point 1.5m in from the facade and desk height is in shade. You either have to estimate the area off of the sunpath diagrams (which isn't correct as hour lines converge at high solar altitudes on the image) or resort to a different method which requires twelve reports (one per month) to be created for every point which takes a lot more time than it should. We have fed this back repeatedly to SquareOne for years, then found out Autodesk now license it. I am pretty sure our guys have fed this back to Autodesk as well with no joy. For those that have had similar experiences I would really encourage you to check this and provide the feedback to the developers. It should be easily fixed but has persisted for years and puts a bit of tarnish on an otherwise great piece of software.<div><div><div><div>Regards,</div><div>Graham Carter</div><div><br><div><div>On 08/01/2010, at 8:13 PM, Andres Alonso wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="993490509-08012010"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; font-size: 10pt; ">Hello Brian,</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"> <o:p></o:p></font></font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; font-size: 10pt; ">Please find attached some useful info about Energy Modelling Tools for early stage design this will help you to highlights the advantages and disadvantages of different softwares, Including Ecotect, TAS, GBS...Etc...</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; font-size: 10pt; ">(Note: The report is back to 2005 or 04, therefore a few features are changes, such as import/export capabilities which Ecotec really improve from previous versions)</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; color: blue; font-size: 10pt; ">Hope this will help….<o:p></o:p></span></div></font></span></div><div> </div><div align="left">ANDRES ALONSO ANGULO</div><div align="left" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 10pt; "></div><div align="left" style="color: rgb(206, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; ">HILSON MORAN</div><div align="left" style="font-size: 12pt; "><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size: 8pt; "><tbody><tr><td>Direct Dial:<s td=""></s></td><td style="padding-left: 10px; ">+44 (0)1252 550587</td></tr><tr><td>Farnborough:</td><td style="padding-left: 10px; ">+44 (0)1252 550500</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div align="left"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-size: 8pt; "><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.hilsonmoran.com/" style="color: rgb(206, 0, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">www.hilsonmoran.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: 12pt; "> </div><div style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 8pt; "><strong>Please consider the environment before printing this email.</strong></div><div style="font-size: 8pt; "> </div><div style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 8pt; ">Registered No: 1233447 England. 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Turner<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>07 January 2010 17:58<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Bldg-sim] Ecotect<br></font><br></div><div></div><div class="Section1"><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; ">Bldg-sim subscribers,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; ">I am interested in learning about your experiences with Ecotect. I am particularly interested in learning about its relative strengths and weaknesses as a schematic design tool. Our firm is in the process of integrating it more fully into our design process and while I’m sure we will learn by experience it would be helpful to hear some “war stories” from others. I would also like to hear about your relative reliance on Ecotect versus other modeling tools in the early stages of design.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; ">Thank you in advance,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); font-size: 10pt; ">Brian Turner <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray; font-size: 7.5pt; ">P.E., LEED AP BD+C</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray; font-size: 7.5pt; ">Mechanical Engineer</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: gray; font-size: 12pt; ">C</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; ">LARK</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: gray; font-size: 12pt; "> N</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: gray; font-size: 10pt; ">EXSEN<br></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: gray; font-size: 7.5pt; ">Architecture & Engineering<br>6160 Kempsville Circle Suite 200A<br>Norfolk, VA 23502<br>757.961.7991 Tel.<br>757.455.5638 Fax<br><a href="mailto:bturner@clarknexsen.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">bturner@clarknexsen.com</span></a><br><a href="http://www.clarknexsen.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: blue; ">www.clarknexsen.com</span></a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 7.5pt; ">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it contain privileged and confidential information and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. 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