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Hi again Zap,

I think I have found where to get the results I am looking for.

Can you point me in the right direction for making a custom, straw bale external wall please? I want to use a Uvalue of 0.12w/m2k.

Many thanks.

Hi,

I am trying to make a custom External Wall material in order to analyse a building with Straw Bale walls.

Ideally I would like it to be timber frame with straw bale infill, but if I can only make it completely straw that will do.

I want the wall to have a U-value of 0.12W/m2K, but I am not ...

When I import a gbXML model from revit the first thing to come up is a pop up window with a sustainability overview. This is great, but at that point the model isn't correct, mainly because the construction types haven't been assigned yet.

Does anyone know how I can get this window up again once I ...

Hi Zap,

I have now successfully change the wall construction, it's not the most user friendly of programs is it!

My project is comparing 4 wall construction types, timber frame, brick/block cavity, straw bale and precast concrete. All other elements such as floors, roof, windows etc remain ...

Thanks Zap, great help.

Is there a way of selecting all external walls at once? Or do you have to click on the room, and then each wall in turn?

Thanks again.

Thanks vajindarladdad, but I refer you to the third paragraph in the original post.

Martin. Hi,
Have you attended IES Training Program , if not I would strongly recommend you to go for it.
http://www.iesve.eu/Training-Calendar/

IES offers a variety of options for training across our whole ...

Hi,

Is there anyone on here that uses VEpro and is based in South East England? I am a student in the final stages of writing a dissertation on sustainable construction, I bought VEpro expecting to be able to get some basic results to discuss, but after hours of trying I seem to be getting nowhere ...

Dear all,

I have built a model in Revit of a 3 bedroom house. I then imported it into VE pro, and have customised the wall types in the Building Template Manager.

I now have no idea how I can assign the construction types to my model. I just want to be able to make the various elements (external ...

Hi,

I am a student at Kingston University in South West London, UK. I am currently writing my dissertation and using your software (I purchased a £50 license).

My dissertation is based on comparing four different construction types in terms of sustainability, insulation values (based on required ...