Finding co-ordinates the easy way
July 2nd, 2011
Every student and professional working in the construction industry would have always needed to find the coordinates of a certain site at least once during the project duration. This neat little tool (free) from Meteonorm allows one to zoom in to a location using Google maps, and will provide the co-ordinates in degrees/minutes or decimals, [...]
Tags: coordinates, map, meteonorm
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Weather heatmaps
March 18th, 2011
This post is an adaptation of Ted Ngai’s climatic visualization techniques with Matlab which can be seen here: http://www.tedngai.net/experiments/climate-visualization-with-matlab.html The only problem is that Ted’s scripts use Matlab, which is a commercial software and quite expensive. On the other hand, Microsoft Excel can be found on almost every machine! I have adapted his [...]
Tags: excel, heatmap, weather
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Daylight Hours Explorer
July 15th, 2010
Stumbled onto this great educational tool from somewhere. It works out the number of daylight hours a location would receive on a particular day after you fill in the latitude of the location. Click the image to try it yourself!
Tags: daylight
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Visualizing data through Google Public Data Explorer
April 23rd, 2010
Google Public Data Explorer is a new tool I found quite by chance which visualizes some very interesting databanks in a useful manner. For example, the World Developement Indicators obtained from the World Bank include quite a few statistics relating to environment: Agricultural land (% of land area) CO2 emissions (kt) CO2 emissions (metric tons [...]
Tags: co2 emissions, datasets, google, public data explorer, world bank
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Creating a high quality Ecotect weather file from Meteonorm
February 16th, 2010
One of the problems with the weather files that are bundled with Ecotect is that they are usually out-dated. Also, most of the weather stations are city airports which do not reflect the true weather conditions that might be prevailing on your site. This is the reason why it’s preferable to create your own weather [...]
Tags: meteonorm, weather
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Finding area of contours in Ecotect/Radiance analysis grid
February 9th, 2010
Finding area of the contours of the ecotect analysis grid was something which I had to do for my dissertation relating to lighting analysis in atriums and the adjacent spaces. One of the grids whose area I had to find for the different bands of daylight factors is: One of the easiest methods is clicking [...]
Tags: analysis grid, cs2, export, Illustrator, path area, radiance, telegraphics
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