PlanIT Impact Addin — Meet Your High-Performance Goals

From the Autodesk App Store:

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PlanIT Impact makes meeting your high-performance goals easier... AGAIN.

PlanIT Impact is the quickest way to achieve high-performance buildings and landscapes that meet your financial goals. With this first-of-its-kind web application, you can introduce costs and estimate ROI during preconstruction, helping your clients exceed their corporate social responsibility goals. Schedule a demonstration: https://planitimpact.com.

The PlanIT Impact Plugin for Autodesk® Revit® automatically determines the following:

• Exterior wall area by orientation
• Window area by orientation
• Overall window-to-wall ratio
• Total building area 

Users can quickly review and refine results with the following features:

• Automatic assignment of window/wall properties
• Isolation mode for windows and walls to easily check out the model
• Manual override for any inconsistencies
• Quick Export button to easily move from drawing to energy modeling

EC3 for Autodesk® BIM 360®

From the Autodesk App Store:

EC3 for Autodesk BIM 360 allows Autodesk® Revit® users to export BIM models from BIM 360 directly to the Embodied Carbon in Construction Calculator (EC3) hosted at buildingtransparency.org.

Export material types and quantity take-offs from BIM 360, avoiding the need for manual take-off.
Display embodied carbon intensity and savings in the Large Model Viewer (LMV).
Generate recommendations for specifying affordable, low-carbon construction materials.

You will need an EC3 account, and you will need to enable 'EC3 for BIM 360' as an app in your account.

If you don't have an EC3 account, you can register for a free account at https://buildingtransparency.org/auth/register
If you haven't enabled EC3 for BIM 360, open the Account Admin page on https://docs.b360.autodesk.com, select the Apps tab, find the EC3 for BIM 360 app, and enable it.  This is an account-level setting, so it only needs to be done once and applies to all users on the BIM 360 Account.
If your account has <100 users, you may need to send a request to bim360appsactivations@autodesk.com to enable apps activations before you can add EC3.
 EC3 supports Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox, but not IE11.

cove.tool – Exports Geometry to cove.tool Projects for Energy Analysis

From the Autodesk App Store:

cove.tool Makes Buildings Cost Less and Perform More
cove.tool allows architects, engineers, contractors, and owners to save money, comply with the latest energy codes, and make effective design decisions. This plugin saves your time by allowing you to export building geometry to existing cove.tool projects in the cloud.

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Free UL SPOT app – Insert Credible Green Product Information

From the Autodesk App Store:

The UL SPOT app for Autodesk® Revit® is an add-in that enables Revit users to access product data from SPOT and assign it directly to their project. This gives the users a quick and easy way to insert credible green product information directly into their Revit project while improving accuracy in reporting to the major global green building rating schemes.

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SPOT – An Online Database for Easily Adding Acurate Sustainability Product Data to Revit Models (Updated)

Updated on January, 4 2017 to add the following:

Editor's Note: The Revit add-in mentioned in the article is currently under development and in private Beta testing. Launch is expected in April.

From the HingePoint blog:

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) wants to get credible sustainability data into Revit models more easily.

To do so, UL recently launched a web-based product, sustainability-information tool that will help users select credible green products and place that information into their Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflow.

“Most people know UL for our fire, mechanical, safety testing; we’ve been doing that for 120 years,” said UL public affairs director Mark Rossolo at Autodesk University. “What most people also don’t know though that we are the largest certifier of sustainable products for use in the buildings.”

The web app–called SPOT–features more than 40,000 products. SPOT’s database will help architects and designers identify products by sustainable attributes, MasterFormat product codes and building rating system credits such as LEED v4 and the WELL Building Standard™.

One Click LCA (Life-Cycle Assessment)

From the Autodesk App Store...

Get your buildings Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) done in One Click! One Click LCA™ plugin delivers instant and certification- and standards-compliant LCA results from your Autodesk® Revit® models. One Click LCA™ is an easy-to-use one-button plugin that delivers an automated Life-Cycle Assessment from your Revit models.

You can use the results to improve your design as well as to earn valuable certification credits, including LEED v4's MRc1 Building Life-Cycle Impact Reduction, BREEAM Mat 01 Life cycle impacts and many others. All calculations within the software are standard-based and follow a strict protocol. What used to take weeks, is now possible in less than an hour One Click LCA™.

The plugin works with structural and architectural models and is able to adapt to your material labeling practices. The cloud service to which the plugin connects detects the materials used in your model and calculates their environmental impacts automatically.

For any certification: LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, HQE and nearly 20 other systems

Works also without Revit: You can use the cloud service directly or upload data from and Excel or an IFC file

Toolkit for certification: in addition of LCA, the cloud platform also supports other materials credits as well as Life Cycle Costing and operational performance tracking.

The plugin consists of two buttons; one for doing the LCA
and another for opening online help.

The cloud service to which the plugin connects allows
choosing the targeted certification scheme in just one click.