It suddenly appeared in our garden...

As seen in our kids' closet.

Greenbuildingstudio.com, the green-design web-extension for your cad software online service has just announced their third overhaul (i.e. v. 3.0). With more and more architecture and engineering offices embracing parametric building design (catchword: BIM = "Building Information Modeling"), this is a great tool to run a quick industry-standard (DOE-2) energy check on a virtual building and to incorporate green design into the planning process. The service then offers ideas for improvements that can be incorporated into design revisions later.

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Apparently today is blog action day. I didn't know that myself... Oh, well... The official SketchUp blog just published an environmental design feature with examples of green building design using SketchUp. It is always good to learn from how others are using a design tool like SketchUp - particularly in a commercial environment.

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If you are interested in learning more about innovative wood structures, environmental aspects of building with wood and general wood design, come to our symposium at UMass in November (1st-2nd). We at BMATWT are organizing this annual conference for the first time and are excited about a great international lineup of speakers.

AIA/CES credits will be available and this is a great event to network with future employers, research collaborators, industry representatives and others.

More information (including a program) is available at: http://www.woodstructuressymposium.com/

Hope to see you there!