DPV - Design Performance Viewer

Due to the rising awareness of climate change and resulting building regulations worldwide, building designers increasingly have to consider the energy performance of their building designs. Currently, performance simulation is mostly executed after the design stage and thus not integrated into design decision-making. In order to evaluate the dependencies of performance criteria on form, material and technical systems, building performance assessment has to be seamlessly integrated into the design process. The DPV utilizes the capability of building information models to store multi-disciplinary information is utilized to access parameters necessary for performance calculations. In addition to the calculation of energy balances, the concept of exergy is used to evaluate the quality of energy sources, resulting in a higher flexibility of measures to optimize a building design. The DPV - Design Performance Viewer enables instantaneous energy and exergy calculations and the graphical visualisation of the resulting performance indices. Due to the direct connection to the design environment (Autodesk REVIT) an export or import of data is not necessary.

Since october 2009, the ETH spinoff keoto is pursuing the further development and application of the developed methods and tools. This includes the professionalization of the Design Performance Viewer.

Movie of the DPV in the BIM editor (5 MB, streaming): DPV movie
More information + images (German): DPV handout

CONTACT

Frank Thesseling (thesseling(at)arch.ethz.ch
Arno Schlueter (schlueter(at)arch.ethz.ch

NEWS

29.06.2009

Frank Thesseling and Arno Schlueter lecture in St. Gallen on performance based design at the workshop "Bauen mit Energie" of the Architekturforum Ostschweiz.

15.05.2009

Marcel Bruelisauer and Arno Schlueter present the Design Performance Viewer including the new cost module at the expert symposium " Planen und Bauen - Ausblick und Visionen" of CRB. More information on the blog.

07.05.2009

For the Hochbauamt Graubünden,  the building systems group, lead by Prof. Dr. Hansjürg Leibundgut, evaluates the result of a design competition and proposes alternative solutions, using the Design Performance Viewer and the BIM of the building design.

05.05.2009

Arno Schlueter lectures on performance-based design at HTA Luzern

18.04.2009

Arno Schlueter presents the paper "Beyond the visual - towards reality in digital design" at the Critical Digital Conference (CDC 2) at Harvard University, GSD

12.01.2009

A custom version of the DPV is displayed as part of the Energie2 strategy of Schüco, one of the leading facade manufacturers, at the BAU2009 trade fair in Munich. With the DPV, the performance of different facades can be evaluated and visualized in real-time.

13.11.2008

Kickoff meeting of the research project DPV 2.0 supportet by the Swiss Ministery of Energy (Bundesamt für Energie, BFE)

05.11.2008

Frank Thesseling and Arno Schlueter present the DPV on invitation of the founding group of the Swiss Energy Agency

15.10.2008

The Swiss Ministery of Energy (Bundesamt für Energie, BFE) approves an 18-month research grant for the further development of the DPV (DPV 2.0). Project partners for the further development are the EMPA, SIA and HTA Luzern.

6.10.2008

Arno Schlueter presents paper "Balancing Design and Performance in Building Retrofitting - a Case Study Based on Parametruic Modelling" at ACADIA 2008, Minneapolis, Minesota, USA

17.09.2008

Frank Thesseling presents paper "Energy and Exergy Performance as Parameters in Architectural Design Sketching - a Case Study" at eCAADE 2008, Antwerp, Belgium

26.08.2008

The DPV is presented by Arno Schlueter and Frank Thesseling at CADvision 2008 in Suhr, Switzerland.

03.07.2008

Arno Schlüter and Frank Thesseling lectured at the "International Summer Academy 2008" in Berlin on building performance.  The Design Performance Viewer was introduced and implemented for the students to enable intuitive building performance asessment in design.

05.2008:

Frank Thesseling and Arno Schlüter lecture at HTA Luzern on "Early Stage Performance Assessment"

04.2008:

LowEx+Arch/2: Seminarweek at ETH Zürich, integrated design with 13
Students

04.2008:

The DPV_LowEx presented at the IEA Annex 49 Meeting, Vienna

02.2008:

"Zeichne Haus - Behalte Energie" magazine article "Hochparterre", Feb.08

12.2007:

DPV presented at AU2007,  Las Vegas, and at Lawrence Berkeley Labs (LBNL), Berkeley

11.2007:

DPV presented at GREENBUILD Educators Summit 2007, Chicago, USA

10.2007:

DPV presented at Architekturtage Zürich

10.2007:

First LowEx+Arch Seminar, ETH Zürich

09.2007:

Presentation DPV / Student Works at the Strategic BIM Meeting, Leipzig