Passive Design

ples of passive design in your home: – Significantly improves comfort. – Reduces or eliminates heating and cooling bills. – Reduces greenhouse gas emissions from heating, cooling, mechanical ventilation and lighting. Building envelope is a term used to describe the roof, walls, windows, floors and internal walls of a home. The envelope controls heat gain in summer and heat loss in winter. Its performance in modifying or filtering climatic extreme…

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Amazing Interior Design

Amazing Interior Design & Cutting Edge Ideas. As many long term expats know, Kensington’s reputation is one of integrity, honesty, quality construction and custom house builds. However as I recently found out, they are also known for offering a complete Interior design service too. In keeping with their architectural, construction and landscaping services they also offer superb world class interior design. They have a super team of young Th…

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Interactive 3D Visualization of Building Envelope Systems Using Infrared Thermography and Sketch Up

Infrared thermography also known as thermal imaging can provide accurate, nondestructive information about the thermal envelope performance of any building. This includes validation of structural details, verification of energy performance (conduction and air leakage), location of moisture intrusion, and the identification of structural and system degradation of roofs and facades. Thermography has been used since the 1960s to detect and diagnos…

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3D Exterior Scene Modeling

This highly detailed 3d tutorial explains how to build exterior scene. This 3d tutorial is divided into 4 important parts for building 3d exterior scene. The first section describes the composition and the camera. The second part explains how to create building models from blueprint image. In 3d tutorial section 3 shown the way how to place lights in a scene. The last part of this 3d tutorial explains how rendering 3d image and the final touch n…

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Low-Polygon 3D Modeling for Games

…utorial, but it does assume that the content is destined for a Shockwave3D environment. Most of the content applies to any sort of lowpolygon modeling, however. Yeah! This lowpoly tutorial is helpful for creating game design, building, character design, etc. Download Low-Polygon 3D Modeling for Games…

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