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Oct 30th 2025
IESVE Summer School

IES is delighted to announce our online IESVE Summer School will be returning from 2nd - 11th December. The Summer School is comprised of six lecture-style sessions, with our IES...

Sep 25th 2025
IESVE Learning Academy: Answering Your Questions

This summer, IES ran a series of live lecture-style sessions for our audiences in North and South America, covering key analyses that can be undertaken using IESVE software. Over...

Sep 9th 2025
VE User Award – Asia Honourable Mention: Najib Bin Hanapi

Congratulations to Najib, who received an Honourable Mention in our VE User of the Year awards for this optimised housing design that works with the Malaysian climate to...

Feb 28th 2025
IESVE CFD: Enhancing Building Performance with MicroFlo CFD

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has long been a critical tool for optimizing airflow, heat transfer, and thermal comfort in buildings. Traditionally, implementing CFD analysis...

Jan 29th 2025
IESVE Australasia Summer School: Answering Your Questions

Late last year, IES ran a series of lecture-style sessions covering key analyses that can be undertaken using IESVE. With over 100 questions submitted across the sessions,...

Oct 3rd 2023
ASHRAE Competition Winners: Stantec’s CO2 Crew

The 2023 ASHRAE Lowdown Showdown Competition recently took place in Austin TX at the annual Building Performance Analysis Conference.  The highlight of the conference is the...

May 2nd 2023
Data Centre CFD Analysis for Risk Mitigation

Data centres are the cornerstone of high value mission critical infrastructure in today’s data rich world. A data centre is a large space loaded with computer servers. The large...

Apr 25th 2023
Improving pedestrian comfort in the built environment using CFD simulation

According to the World Bank, currently 56% of the world’s population – 4.4 billion inhabitants – live in cities. This trend is expected to continue, with urban population more...

Sep 27th 2022
ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference Competition Winners: DLR Group

Congratulations to the designers from DLR Group who won the ASHRAE LowDown Showdown Design Competition at the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild (BPACS) in...

Jul 21st 2022
IES CFD Services for EU Data Centre Masterplanning

IES Consulting have been providing expert CFD services to support a series of hyperscale data centre campus masterplanning projects across Europe. As the reliance on digital...

Aug 3rd 2021
IES Wind Microclimate Studies support Successful Planning Applications

When it comes to new developments, a crucial consideration is the impact your development might have upon the local microclimate. This is one area where Computational Fluid...

Jul 9th 2021
IESVE preferred teaching tool for Glasgow Caledonian University

Glasgow Caledonian University has been teaching the IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) to its Building Service Engineer students for around 14 years. Being the leading tool used in...

Feb 24th 2021
VE User of the Year NA Winner: Miles Martschink

Meet Miles Martschink; the North American regional winner of our 2020 VE User of the year competition.  To celebrate Miles’ winning entry, we wish to highlight the impressive...

Dec 10th 2020
Simulate 2050: How to Achieve a Net-Zero Built Environment

With various global targets now set, the clock is well and truly ticking on the race to net-zero. This joint blog from IES and SimScale considers what is needed to...

Dec 8th 2020
CFD Simulation for Hospital Operating Rooms (ORs)

CFD Simulation is an important tool for designing ventilation systems in critical healthcare facilities. Given a typical Operating Room (OR), ‘ASHRAE Standard 170 - Ventilation of...

Sep 16th 2020
Ventilation Simulation to Reduce Indoor Infection Risk

As building design & HVAC system operation continues to react to the virus responsible for the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, there has been an increased focus on the...