71% of the total electricity consumption In the US is in commercial and private real estate and what happens there is that people use conventional 2D technology to design those buildings and more than 80% of people use 2D to design those buildings. But if you design and advance to 3D and you simulate them, you can do diverse significant energy savings, very, very significant reductions in CO2. What I am going to do now is call up Craig and Craig will walk us through an example of how you can use conventional main stream computing power to do very substantial savings on building construction.

Yeah absolutely. So we are going to take a look at several products from Autodesk who has been a long time partner of cleantech forum here. And what I would like to show off in just like you and you have been phrasing the transition from 2D to3D. It’s kind of been long and slow going. So what we see in this traditional 3D modeling tool like this, is excellent as far as the regular cat setup that we have for designing structures and buildings. But the big portion of it is when you are actually thoroughly designing in 3D it allows you to work with both the simulated data and work with those 3D spaces as a whole. So outside of my walls are x height and it’s been wide. Now I am looking at whether the thermal dynamics of these spaces as they go ahead and work together. So something along the lines of where I am able to manipulate a 3D kind of a pretty smart model. However, if I wanted to go ahead and take a look at and this is Autodesk ecotech suite on how outside factors are going to affect your overall building performance. Now this is actual simulated data that we brought in from the overall sides of the structure. Based on the materials that we picked out, window coverage, climate the wear, the location of the building is actually physically located in the world and now I am able to see exactly how the thermal dynamics of these move around. Now, in this kind of new aspect, I am able to use these with standard computing tools. So a regular desktop that I have here, the core I7, something fairly new. However, something less specialized than we have in the workstations, got to love more’s law, right. And so, what we want to do is bring in basically all the environmental factors from what we’re taking out. So, a couple of impacts that we can make we can see this great how the air is going to flow through this building and how we can also make heating and thermodynamic concerns as far as using more ventilation in this building and this is at the concept phase when we bring these around. So, no longer is this an afterthought to something when we want to design green buildings. But, we can also take in all the environmental factors that really make sense. Like let’s take a look at some of these shadows and how they are going to affect our overall building impact especially when I am looking at alternate renewable energies like solar.

Where do I want to put those panels? Where am I going to get the best coverage? So, when I will look at the diagram like this, I am able to see actually through the path of the day where the sun is going to give me the most coverage. So, as I can see, I can go ahead and move and when exactly I need to go ahead and apply those panels in addition may be I want to see exactly how that performance is going to portray throughout the entire year. So some truly great amazing tools that we are seeing. So both on the simulated side bring in all that data, see how that building can perform before you even quote the stitched to ground and then lets take all those environmental factors that go in and we are going to put our clean green spend on it. so what we want to do is take down all of the data from the energy concerns that our local area are feeding in this building away with all of the direct geographical data and what we are actually doing is we will take this model that we have made in our studio here for ecotech and we are going to put it into Autodesk green building studio. Now this is basically a huge data collection. I have uploaded all of my drafts and my designs to the web and now I’m able to bring in all the information together to see exactly how this building is to perform. So, to calculate energy cost I am looking at about 20 grand based on the local cost of power its going to take to consume my building.

As well as the annual CO2 emissions estimated on the power and the energy that I am bringing in. so, about, it looks like at about 80 tons of annual CO2 emission and of you wanted to go ahead and translate that into something that was a little more English, that’s about 7.2 large SUVs raveling on the highway at about 15,000 miles a year. So something that’s a little bit more easy for us to understand. But as well as the carbon neutral potential that I have here, how close are we into building an actual sustainable building? And what kind of alternatives that we want to use like electric power plant sources. How much my water use cost but particularly like the photovoltaic potential. You know do I have really good coverage from the sun and the environment and what can I do to maximize if I was to bring not including the expense of what’s going to take for me to solar panel and maximize my energy renewal cost but also how long is its really going to take me to pay back that investment on the energy savings as well. Same thing with the wind energy potential and a big one here which is natural ventilation potential.

So, for something that’s been a huge cooling concern basis, like maybe an office building like I have here in Arizona, I am going to have may be a lot more kind of options if I’m down in maybe Minnesota or one of those type of plants to actually open up the windows and save a lot of money on general concern. So, with these type of 3D tools, we are really looking at the next generation of clean and green is no longer a forethought. We are trying to make sustainable buildings, 71% is a lot of energy usage. So we realize that there is a problem here and Autodesk is bringing us some great tools in order to solve that. So we can make better 3D designs, more intuitive and much easier and sustainable projects to come out for in this next decade.

Thank you. Okay so, the point there is that computing power is not cheap enough for us to physically stimulate real things before we go ahead and make them both in construction and in manufacturing and If we do have intelligently, then we can design those objects so that they are lower cost, more efficient and better overall for the environment.