Get Sust! Issue 30

Cash prizes and other offers for students and academics

IES, the UK-based developer of <Virtual Environment> building performance analysis tools has launched this year’s competition to find for the most innovative and exciting student projects using the <Virtual Environment> suite.

Departmental prizes are worth £250, and there is a national-level prize of £500 for the best project taken from all winners of the departmental prizes.

IES is at the forefront of the development of commercially viable building performance analysis software tools that enable true sustainable building design.

The <VE> integrated building performance analysis tools are used by architects and engineers, planners and facilities managers. The system uses one clear interface resulting in faster, efficient building design, and includes the Apache thermal simulation tool with a proven capability for energy use and natural ventilation studies, solar analysis, Part L compliance checking tools, daylighting analysis and simulation (for BREAM), electric lighting design and many more.

IES is offering:

• Academic licences of the IES Virtual Environment to universities and colleges at a fraction of the cost of commercial organisation licences.
• Students within your department are able to purchase the <VE> (for study related use only) at an extremely low cost of £50 for one year’s use. This will allow them to work in their own time on <VE> projects created during course sessions.
• Training for your department is available via 90-minute web-based training sessions hosted by IES on advertised dates, followed by a Q&A session. The number of sessions needed depends on which IES product(s) you require to be trained in. Web-based training is available at a specially discounted cost of £60 per session per person.

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To nominate full-time students for the IES design prizes, or for further information about licences and training, please contact us at learning@iesve.com.