One Little Item for Today

I know I've been quiet lately.  I'll get to that in a bit down the road.  Today is a day of big news for Autodesk.  I will let our press release do the talking on that front.

We are all very excited here on the Autodesk team to have such world-class talent in the sustainability realm injected into our organization, and we are looking forward to further developing these tools to meet the needs of you all in the market.

Of course I cannot go into much detail on our plans, so I'll just summarize the tools as they exist today.

Revit
Best-in-class BIM authoring tool, with a growing ecosystem of analysis and construction partners.

Green Building Studio
SaaS-based (Software as a Service) analysis tool that runs on the gbXML fuel that Revit produces.  Caters to early stage design and helps to guide benchmarking against potential energy savings with your design.

Ecotect
Model-based analysis tool that facilitates many different kinds of analysis and and simulation within a very approachable and usable interface.  Allows for great visualization of analysis results as well as goal-driven studies.  With its most recent inception it also runs on the gbXML that Revit produces.

Loadsoft
ASHRAE-based heating and cooling load calculations based upon information provided by, you guessed it, a gbXML file.

As we look to streamline the workflows between this ecosystem of tools, I think there are big things we can accomplish.  And as a good Product Manager, I would be remiss to mention that you all in the market are the strongest voice to help influence the path we take.  With that in mind, drop me a comment or an e-mail with your thoughts.

Comments

[Dave Light]

Kyle,

From my perspective this is great news for the industry as well as revit users, especially with regards to the Ecotect acquisation! At least now the architects will have something which they can use which is not as heavy as some of the more engineering focused applications. Here in the UK, Ecotect has been a favoured tool by many architects. Now its in the hands of Autodesk, I expect to see smart plugins which interface directly with Revit in the future.

[John W]

Now that Autodesk has acquired so many different building performance analysis tools (including the Loadsoft which seems to even do the ASHRAE loads), how is Autodesk going to position its relationship with IES? Revit already does heating/cooling load calculations (albeit at a very early stage) and the direct link with IES already does some sustainability and energy analysis. Wouldn't all these new acquisitions be competing with IES? Just curious.