Welcome to the Autodesk® Ecotect™ wiki, a resource of reference and educational material on the environmental design and performance analysis of buildings.
Information and Resources
Tools to explain and promote performance-driven building design and practice.
- Analysis Concepts
Notes detailing some important concepts in the environmental design of buildings. - Software Documentation
Software documentation and product help file. - Training Packages
Structured teaching and learning materials forming our on-line courses. - ECOTECT Tutorials
A wide range of useful tutorials on the specifics of using the software. - Hints and Tips
User-contributed snippets of useful knowledge and experience. - Glossary
Detailed definitions of important terms used on this site.
Tools and Utilities
Pages containing calculators, widgets and converters to make life easier.
- Interactive Location Map
Locate your site in a Google map and retrieve its exact longitude and latitude in a range of different formats. - HTML to Wiki Format Converter
If you want to convert some raw HTML code it WIKI text format, just copy/paste into this tool and let it do the work for you. - Solar Position Calculator
A couple of different caculation tools enabling you to get accurate sun positions for any location and time of year.
Previous Resources
Where to find resources from our old site within the new layout.
- Square One archive
You can still access all our old architectural science notes in their original form. - ECOTECT v5.20 Tutorials
A lot of people have asked where the old v5.20 tutorials went. They are still available, but hopefully our very latest will be much better.
News and Events
Important news items and event announcements.
- Website Returns
After nearly a month of downtime we're finally back online with our new website. We've promised a lot, and there are some exciting new features for us to deliver (see below). Obviously we are juggling quite a few different balls at the moment, but we have been working hard in the background and will be rolling each of these commitments out one by one over the next month.
Coming Soon
New site features we are working on that have been made possible by the new website infrastructure.
- Searchable Material and Profile Libraries
This contains detailed material data and zone operational profiles for a wide range of building types and activities, all searchable by multiple performance criteria. - Community and regional user groups
The site offers you the option of joining collaborative work groups with shared project or regional interests. - Online Courses
Long promised but now finally taking shape - the Square One on-line accreditation courses will enable you to rate just how much you already know against how much you might need to know.
