

While this slide is bases on data form the UK it is fair to extrapolate this data as a rule of thumb for any western country.

He is also a technical advisory board member for buildingSMART Canada and the Green Building XML schema. He has pioneered the BIM-integrated energy modeling workflow and taught it in college programs, industry workshops, and to students all over the world with his online training course. He is focused on helping engineers and architects implement technology workflows that promote sustainable building design and ultimately reduces the carbon impact of the built environment. Jean Carriere Jean is a Business Development Manager with IES in the East coast of Canada and the East Coast of the US.
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He is also part of the BIM development team pushing the software forward. In addition to project work, using his knowledge as a BIM AP, Douglas has implemented BIM standards into IES consultancy and continues to develop this as an ongoing process.

It’s also his responsibility to project manage & quality check models built within IES. Introduce co-Presenters Douglas Bell ĺs a member of the expanding Consultancy team at IES, Douglas has been responsible for building numerous models within the IES Virtual Environment across a wide variety of challenging projects worldwide, as well as using various other CAD packages, such as Revit, Rhino and Sketchup. We are delighted to have you with us this morning. I am a BDM for IES working across Europe. VE for Engineers and VE for Architects are the two packages available within the Virtual Environment. The VE contains an integrated central data model, which has direct links to SketchUp, Revit, Vectorworks and gbXML, IFC & dxf imports. It can be used by designers to test different options, identify passive solutions, compare low-carbon & renewable technologies, and draw conclusions on energy use, CO2 emissions and occupant comfort. The IES Virtual Environment (VE) is a suite of building performance analysis applications. The company invest over 1/4 of their turnover in R&D to create new technology for the built environment, and have acquired both National and European funding through Scottish Enterprise, the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and the European Framework Programme 7 (FP7). In June 2012, the company announced the acquisition of North American consulting firm BVM Engineering (BVME). The company is headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, and has additional offices in Dublin, Atlanta, Melbourne, Singapore and Pune.

IES was founded in 1994 by Dr Don McLean, as a spin-off from Strathclyde University. IES create software tools for designing and operating energy efficient buildings. Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd is a software and consultancy company that specializes in building performance analysis. IES Virtual Environment (VE), VE for Engineers, VE for Architects, IES TaP
