Big Green: SketchUp and EnergyPlus team up

[Russ Weiser (HKP)]

See the link below for a free beta version and an EnergyPlus Plug-in 
for Sketchup.  If it works as advertiesed it will allow designers, 
engineers and architects do energy modeling earlier on in the design 
process.  I first heard about this in the Environmental Building News 
last year sometime when they reviewed energy modeling software, but 
it hasn't been available until now.  I'd be interested in hearing 
people's thoughts about it.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/energy_design_plugin.html


Russ Weiser, AIA, LEED AP, Ph.D.
HKP architects
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