Yesterday I presented to architecture students at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). As the Director of Design Technology at Lake | Flato Architects here in San Antonio, this was a great opportunity to share knowledge with a local architecture program.
I was a guest lecturer in the class Environmental Systems taught by professor Hazem Rashed-Ali, Ph.D., LEED AP.
ARC 4183. Environmental Systems. (2-2) 3 Credit Hours.
Prerequisites: ARC 2156, ARC 2166, and ARC 2233. Advanced issues in the design of environmentally responsive buildings and the natural and artificial systems that support them, such as embodied energy, active and passive heating and cooling, indoor air quality, solar orientation, daylighting and artificial illumination, acoustics, and building services systems. Includes the use of appropriate performance assessment tools. Course
Here is my intro slide (click to enlarge)... my morning bike ride is significantly different that this photo from last year in northern Minnesota! Plus, the current morning community is to Starbucks and back (~8 miles roundtrip) during WFH.
The presentation mainly offered a high-level overview of the Revit + Insight workflow for early energy optimization by Autodesk. I briefly mentioned a few other tools and encouraged the use of any tool to start asking questions and challenge assumptions around design decisions.
Here are a few of the slides I used, in addition to doing a quick 8-story building mockup and running a simulation. All done under an hour! FYI: these slides are from a presentation I did on this topic at the Minnesota AIA Convention back in 2017 per the logo in the upper right:).
This information is similar to what I offer my graduate architecture students at NDSU, for example: NDSU - First Week of School - Fall 2019 and NDSU - First Week of School - Fall 2020.
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