https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Sustainable-design/Ecodesigner-and-thermal-bridges/m-p/174656#M642 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>Hi everyone,<BR /> I'm considering purchasing ED as preliminary design tool. We mainly do high energy-efficiency residential projects in Italy using CasaClima standards (<A href="http://www.agenziacasaclima.it" target="_blank">www.agenziacasaclima.it</A>). I'm wondering if I can somehow set ED up to match CasaClima calculation guidelines.<BR /> <BR /> I had a look at its user guide and at the advanced user guide. I was wondering how ED 13/ ED14 deal with thermal bridges. Is there a paper describing how its VIP engine calculates heat losses in detail?<BR /> <BR /> Furthermore, on CasaClima website is already available a Revit template, which is very upsetting...<BR /> <BR /> Thank!<BR /> <BR /> Enrico</R></DIV> Thu, 11 May 2023 08:24:08 GMT Anonymous 2023-05-11T08:24:08Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Sustainable-design/Ecodesigner-and-thermal-bridges/m-p/174656#M642 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>Hi everyone,<BR /> I'm considering purchasing ED as preliminary design tool. We mainly do high energy-efficiency residential projects in Italy using CasaClima standards (<A href="http://www.agenziacasaclima.it" target="_blank">www.agenziacasaclima.it</A>). I'm wondering if I can somehow set ED up to match CasaClima calculation guidelines.<BR /> <BR /> I had a look at its user guide and at the advanced user guide. I was wondering how ED 13/ ED14 deal with thermal bridges. Is there a paper describing how its VIP engine calculates heat losses in detail?<BR /> <BR /> Furthermore, on CasaClima website is already available a Revit template, which is very upsetting...<BR /> <BR /> Thank!<BR /> <BR /> Enrico</R></DIV> Thu, 11 May 2023 08:24:08 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Sustainable-design/Ecodesigner-and-thermal-bridges/m-p/174656#M642 Anonymous 2023-05-11T08:24:08Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Sustainable-design/Ecodesigner-and-thermal-bridges/m-p/174657#M643 I dont think that ecodesigner calculate thermal bridges. <BR /> It alow you to modify some R values and you can put newer elements and values . <BR /> You can precalculate a medium value of a wall type therm. resist. with thermal bridge influence included . <BR /> So is not a correct and utile thermal analisys addon . Shameful for a BIM , only a child toy to pretend you have " calculated " something . Even with dedicated software is difficult to have a proffessional result of thermal bridges influence . For this reason was developed catalogues of thermal bridges dependant of country specific regulations . See european standard EN ISO 13370 . It is not so simple. Good luck . Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:24:43 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Sustainable-design/Ecodesigner-and-thermal-bridges/m-p/174657#M643 Anonymous 2010-07-25T19:24:43Z