Friday, April 05, 2013

Sustainable by design- free tools for solar analysis of window shading

I'm looking on-line for a link to my favorite programs, THE SOLAR TOOL , part of the old Ecotect suite. Its great that lots of these old separate building analysis programs are now built into CAD type programs, but that's a bit annoying if you don't want to load up and run a massively complex program and just do a quick test of an overhang in the totally cute SOLAR TOOL. In my search for it in the depths of cyberworld, I found a great site of Christopher Gronbeck, a sustinable architect in USA. He has developed and provides free (or with voluntary donation) a stack of simple analysis tools...and a very Wright-inspired website too! Find it here