As the global climate crisis intensifies, the performance of buildings has become a critical focus in efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The built environment currently accounts...
We are excited to share that IES has joined forces with the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) and several partner organisations to spearhead a new project initiative, centred...
We’re delighted to have teamed up with the B1M to bring together experts from across the industry to address the many misconceptions surrounding the term 'Digital Twin'. Read on...
Amidst growing climate change concerns, the United Kingdom finds itself at a pivotal moment in its heating landscape. At present, heating our buildings makes up nearly a quarter...
On the 30th November 2021 the UK Government's Department for Education (DfE) released the Construction Framework 2021. The requirements of the framework apply to all school...
Tabular Space Data allows users to rapidly inspect and modify standard thermal attributes, internal gains and air exchanges for spaces in their models. In this Tech Tip, we...
Peak cooling coil loads can often occur during either the Monthly Design Dry-Bulb conditions or the Monthly Design Wet-Bulb conditions. As a continuation of ASHRAE Heating and...
Today, 1st August 2024, marks this year’s Earth Overshoot Day. The day of the year on which humanity’s demand on nature exceeds the Earth’s annual biological capacity to...
IESVE has the ability to carry out Steady State peak load calculations, or produce sub-hourly load profiles using Dynamic Thermal Simulation. Following a recent webinar ‘Using...
The latest Climate Change Committee Progress Report was released last week, and revealed some depressing yet not surprising findings. Yet again the UK is falling behind on...
Master Templates can support increased modelling productivity in the VE, allowing users to import and merge VE model data from a source master template into their current...
The space groups function within the VE allows users to group spaces in their model according to various criteria. Space groups are especially useful if you commonly work on...
With the global building stock expected to double by 2050, the built environment has an important role to play in reaching net zero goals. Carbon emissions produced during...
This week marks Net-Zero Week, the UK’s official national awareness week and biggest net-zero conference. Running for the 4th consecutive year, its aim is to highlight the...
As the EU Horizon 2020 funded project, TwinERGY, draws to a close, IES R&D are excited to share some final outputs from the project, which has empowered citizens across four...
Our latest Python in the VE series instalment covers benchmarking consumption data. What? In this article we look at a script that uses publicly available data (CBECS) on...