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19/12/2025

🎄✨ Thank You for Your Continued Support in 2025 ✨🎄

As 2025 draws to a close, we’d like to say a huge thank you to our customers, partners, and community for your continued support 🙌

This year has been another successful one for IES, as we continued to build momentum towards our mission of improving the performance of energy-intensive buildings worldwide. We hope 2025 has been a positive and productive year for you too, and we’re excited to continue working together in 2026 and beyond 🚀

🎁 From everyone at IES, we wish you a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!

🕒 Christmas Support Hours
We’ll be operating a reduced service from Thursday 25 December 2025 to Friday 2 January 2026, reopening fully on Monday 5 January at 9am.

❌ Support will be closed on:
• Thursday 25 December
• Friday 26 December
• Thursday 1 January

📧 While telephone support won’t be available during this period, our support consultants and license team will be working online to help with urgent requests:
• Technical Support: support@iesve.com
• License Keys: keys@iesve.com

🔎 Helpful Resources (available anytime):
• IES Help centre https://bit.ly/3KE0jkF
• Searchable Help Site https://bit.ly/48VmPgM
• FAQs https://bit.ly/4qelicL
• Weather Data https://bit.ly/4p523kJ

Thank you for your patience and understanding during the holiday period 🎄

17/12/2025

📘 Fundamentals of Building Performance Modeling Handbook - Packed with Practical Insight

Last week, we shared the release of the updated Fundamentals of Building Performance Modeling Handbook. If you haven’t had a chance to dive in yet, this new edition is packed with essential knowledge for understanding and applying building physics and performance simulation.

It brings together core concepts, clearer explanations, and deeper technical insight, with updated sections covering daylighting, HVAC, solar, wind, overheating, climate and much more!

📥 Download the free handbook here: https://bit.ly/4oCf4lH

15/12/2025

🏆 From simulation to reality: LEED Platinum, proven by performance.

GreenJump Sustainability used the IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) to accurately model, optimise, and validate a number of high-performance design strategies for its Taipei headquarters.

By leveraging dynamic simulation across lighting, HVAC, and envelope design — all within our integrated platform — GreenJump optimised and validated every key design decision before construction. Two years into operation, measured energy data confirms the results. 📊✔️

📊 Design Optimisation, verified by real-world data:
🔹 20% energy savings
🔹 23 LEED points for Optimize Energy Performance
🔹 27.8% lighting energy savings
🔹 Up to 60% HVAC energy savings

👉 Read more about this exceptional operational performance: https://bit.ly/3MKlBxn

11/12/2025

Driving Smart Building Innovation: ENSNARE Project Results

The EU-funded ENSNARE project ended in September, delivering groundbreaking solutions for deep renovation and operational decarbonisation. At its core was a physics-based digital twin integrated with real-time data and optimisation workflows developed by IES.

In our latest blog, Giulia Barbano shares how a residential building in Tartu, Estonia became the testbed for active energy control using predictive modelling, IoT sensors, and human-in-the-loop automation. The system transformed traditional BMS from reactive to proactive, enabling day-ahead optimisation of heating strategies. 🏢

Key Results
✅ 34% raw reduction in HVAC energy use (up to 50% weather-adjusted)
✅ No reported comfort issues during a two-month winter deployment
✅ Secure, standards-based integration via Niagara 4 and oBIX protocols

🎖 Industry Recognition
ENSNARE was recently awarded Best Innovation Project at the A3E Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Awards in Seville, underscoring its impact on smart building technologies.

Interested to hear more about IES’s role and how ENSNARE has helped pave the way for scalable, self-optimising, low-carbon buildings across Europe?

👉 Check out our blog: https://bit.ly/4aIWvsJ

09/12/2025

🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of our Fundamentals of Building Performance Modeling Handbook (Version 2)!

One of our most widely used educational resources has just received a major update - designed to support students, educators, engineers, architects and energy modelers in mastering the foundations of building physics and performance simulation.

📘 What’s new in Version 2?
This expanded edition now includes clearer explanations, deeper technical insight, and brand-new sections covering:
✅ Psychrometrics
✅ Solar and Wind
✅ Thermal Bridging
✅ Overheating & Window Operation
✅ Thermal Zoning for HVAC Design
✅ Refrigeration

📥 Check out a preview of the new sections below and download the full, free handbook here: https://bit.ly/4oCf4lH

Authored by Liam Buckley, Senior Vice President of IESVE Software and newly awarded IBPSA Fellow, the Handbook draws on over 20 years of leadership in simulation, education, and advancing best practice across the AEC industry.

04/12/2025

🎙️ New Episode of Watts the Story: featuring IES’s own Kate Bomar

We’re excited to share that Kate Bomar, Building Performance Engineer at Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES)., licensed PE & LFA, and two-time Project STASIO Competition winner, is the featured guest on this month’s episode of Watts the Story, hosted by Jason Zhou of Ibpsa-Usa’s EPSI Committee!

Kate shares how she transformed her dual passion for architecture and engineering into a career at the forefront of building performance simulation. From consulting to software support at IES, to leadership within IBPSA-USA—Kate shows how modeling + storytelling = impact. 💡📊✨

As Kate puts it:
“I think our job as modelers is to be storytellers. The better we understand our results, the better we can have an impactful conversation about them—with colleagues, clients, or anyone whose priorities we’re trying to shift.”

🎧 Listen here: https://bit.ly/4pbhU2a

03/12/2025

🚀 Our APACHE Simulation Engine just got even better — supporting new modelling capabilities for emerging low-carbon systems, and passive strategies.

For 30+ years, APACHE has been the gold standard in dynamic thermal simulation — and the latest IESVE updates push it even further.

Here’s what’s new:
🌞 Advanced Thermal Bridging Analysis — more accurate, physics-based calculations + flexible workflows for easier global compliance.
❄️🔥 Phase Change Materials (PCM) Modelling — for smarter passive design and better IEQ.
🏥⚙️ HARC System Modelling — robust, future-ready simulation for complex facilities, with seamless heat acquisition/rejection behaviour.

Plus:
🤖 AI-ready enhancements like parallel simulation + Python scripting to automate workflows and boost speed, usability and real-world impact.

With IESVE 2025, APACHE is faster, smarter and more future-proof than ever — empowering engineers, architects and sustainability consultants to deliver high-performance, low-carbon buildings.

👉 Full blog: https://bit.ly/4ovw9O2

02/12/2025

🚀 Free Webinar: Streamline BREEAM Project Management with IES TaP 🌱

Are you ready to simplify and speed up your BREEAM evidence-gathering process? Join our free live webinar for an exclusive tour of IES TaP — the secure, cost-effective and easy-to-use online project tracking tool designed to make BREEAM project management effortless.

During this session, you'll discover how IES TaP helps you:
✨ Manage all your projects securely in one central location
📊 Track ratings & progress in real time with our unique project dashboard
⏱️ Save significant time and money with powerful management tools
📁 Streamline submissions to the BRE for QA and BREEAM certification
💼 Boost productivity and take on more business
Plus, you’ll get the chance to have your questions answered live by our product expert!

📅 Thu 11 Dec | 1–2pm GMT
👉 Sign up here https://bit.ly/44DCFLx

27/11/2025

🚀 Get Started with IESVE Software – Free Online Training Series

IES are excited to partner with Reinvent Design Technologies to deliver a series of free online training sessions designed to help new users build confidence and capability with our world-leading IESVE software.

Across these sessions, you’ll gain hands-on insights into:
🔹 Building energy modelling
🔹 Solar shading & design optimisation
🔹 Daylight & artificial lighting simulation
🔹 Natural ventilation & CFD analysis
… and much more!
🎓 All attendees will receive a certificate for each session completed.

🖥️ Multiple Online sessions | 5:00–6:15pm IST | Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
✔️ Spaces are limited – register early to secure your spot!

Register for each session now👇
https://bit.ly/3LZqK4x

If you have any questions don't hesitate to get in touch by emailing Dave mithi.dave@iesve.com.

26/11/2025

🌞📊 IESVE Summer School – Australasia • December 2025

Join us this December for our FREE online IESVE Summer School, featuring 6 expert-led sessions covering key IESVE workflows — from Geometry and Daylighting to Loads, Energy, HVAC and CFD. 💡⚙️

This year also includes updates on BIM export, Pollination interoperability, Parametric Simulation, visualisation tools, and Renewable Energy options. 🌍📈

Each session includes a live Q&A, and you can register for the topics you’re most interested in.

🎁 All attendees receive:
✔️ 3 months free On-Demand Learning access
✔️ A free 1-month IESVE licence
✔️ Certificate of attendance

Register now for the sessions you want with the sign up link in the comments. 👇

25/11/2025

🎉 Congratulations to Craig Wheatley

We’re delighted to announce that Craig Wheatley, Chief Commercial Officer at IES, has been elected to the IBPSA-England Board.

IBPSA-England plays a key role in supporting technical excellence and innovation across the building performance simulation community, and Craig’s contribution will help drive continued progress in the application of simulation to improve building and environmental performance. 🏙️🌱

🌍 We also congratulate Professor Neveen Hamza on her election as Chair. Her manifesto — “Building Performance, Building Community” — reflects a strong commitment to amplifying the organisation’s presence and reviving the National Building Performance Simulation Conference, to enhance UK-wide collaboration.

🤝 IES looks forward to supporting IBPSA-England’s mission to drive technical excellence, knowledge-sharing, and progress towards a more sustainable built environment.

👉 Read more at https://bit.ly/4oUQm0V

24/11/2025

🎓Have you signed up for the AEC Playbook for Better Building Performance?

This free course helps you avoid the biggest building performance mistakes — in a series of emails which you can work through at a time that suits you.

In Mistake #3: Oversimplifying zones, schedules, and inputs, we discuss:
🚧 The reasons that design teams oversimplify input data for simulation
🚧 Why this leads to inaccurate results
🚧 And how to fix it

A few small tweaks to how you define zones, loads, schedules and inputs, can massively improve accuracy—without slowing your workflow.

Get started now to upgrade your modelling process — sign up link in the comments. 👇

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