Revit Insight: Energy Analysis

Incorporate Autodesk Insight— a powerful building performance analysis software—into your design workflow. Learn how to use data to drive energy-efficient building projects.

Introduction

• Energy modeling goal

1. Product Overview

• Set up the user interface
• Insight: Behind the scenes
• Why Revit/Insight workflow
• Advantages
• Technique
• Our project

2. Project Workflow: Masses and Elements

• Establish location, weather station, and orientation
• Create in-place masses
• Assign floors and adjust adjacent masses
• Generate energy model
• Create an insight
• Adjust the model to show connection
• Energy settings: 01 model submittal
• Review 01 model submittal
• Energy settings: View template
• Add building elements for an imprint
• Mirror object that will imprint
• Create 02 model submittal: Elements added
• Add shading, mass families, and roof: 03 submittal
• Use families to populate changes
• Add detail for apartment types: Interior mass walls
• Add detail for apartment types: Revit walls
• Benefit of a library of masses for reuse
• Overrides for schematic surfaces
• Building elements only (bounding) for a study
• Checklist: Best practice

3. Understanding Insight Results

• The generated mode: Review
• Create a scenario minus the PV contribution and with modified ranges
• Applied scenario
• Export options

4. Lighting Solar Analysis

• Setup for a lighting study: Rooms and floors needed
• Create a daylight autonomy study
• Create a LEED accreditation study: Pass/fail
• Customize the analysis results
• Analyze the PV panels for the year
• Analyze the PV panel output for winter months
• Reveal prime locations for surface mounted PV panels

5. The Future

• Setup for building elements with spaces
• Organic forms
• More mass form options
• Formit as a front end for massing