London Workshops, 19-24 March 2018

We are delighted to officially announce the schedule for our week-long workshop series in London on March 19-24, 2018. See the table below for dates and topics. There are limited number of seats for each workshop. Please secure your seat as soon as possible. Register here.

We are offering a 25% discount for students with five spots in each workshop on a first-come, first-serve basis. To verify, email us a photo of your current valid student ID with the list of workshops that you are interested in and we will send you a discount code. The email address is (london.workshops.2018@ladybug.tools).

We are also offering a 20% discount for attending all the workshops and a 10% discount for attending more than two full days of workshops. Email us the list of workshops that you are interested in and we will send you a discount code. The email address is (london.workshops.2018@ladybug.tools).

We want to greatly thank ChapmanBDSP for sponsoring the venue for the workshops during the week. These workshops would not be possible without their fantastic support and collaboration. Be sure to visit their website and see their projects and services.

Date	Time	Topic
Monday March 19 2018	9:00 am - 6:00 pm	#1 Ladybug essentials (8 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Tuesday March 20 2018	9:00 am - 1:00 pm	#2 Honeybee basics for daylighting in Grasshopper (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Tuesday March 20 2018	2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	#3 Advanced daylight modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Wednesday March 21 2018	6:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Public presentation
Thursday March 22 2018	9:00 am - 1:00 pm	#4 Honeybee basics for daylighting in Dynamo (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Thursday March 22 2018	2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	#5 Airflow modeling with Butterfly in Grasshopper (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Friday March 23 2018	9:00 am - 6:00 pm	#6 Energy modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper (8 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Saturday March 24 2018	9:00 am - 1:00 pm	#7 Automated iterative modeling and analysis in Grasshopper (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum
Saturday March 24 2018	2:00 pm - 6:00 pm	#8 Thermal comfort modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper (4 hrs) See detailed curriculum

#1 Ladybug Essentials
Monday, March 19 2018
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

The one-day Ladybug workshop will provide attendees with the ability to explore the relationship between weather data and environmental design decisions. The workshop will include a brief introduction into building environmental design and weather data analysis. In this workshop you will learn how to:

Import and visualize weather data
Calculate outdoor thermal comfort
Draw interactive diagrams and apply conditional statements
Run radiation and solar access analysis
Generate customized result visualizations
Use environmental simulation output to evaluate and generate design options

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper is not required but is recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
For this workshop you do not need to install Radiance, EnergyPlus or OpenStudio.

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
9:00 to 9:30	Introduction	This presentation provides an overview of Ladybug Analysis Tools and its applications in different stages of the design process with focus on Ladybug applications.	Beginner	30 min
9:30 to 11:00	Weather data analysis and visualization	The workshop starts with a series of hands-on tutorials to develop workflows to analyze and visualize weather data. The attendees will be introduced to techniques for filtering and combining weather data to answer a specific environmental design question and come up with an early design decision.	Beginner Ladybug	90 min
11:00 to 11:15	Break			15 min
11:15 to 12:30	Thermal comfort, Solar-adjusted temperature	This session discusses different thermal comfort models and studies the effect of solar radiation on outdoor thermal comfort. The goal is to identify hours that outdoor shading can be helpful.	Intermediate Ladybug	75 min
12:30 to 13:30	Lunch			60 min
13:30 to 14:45	Sunpath, Outdoor shading	This session continues by using the findings from morning to design an outdoor canopy.	Intermediate Ladybug	45 min
14:45 to 15:00	Break			15 min
15:00 to 16:15	Radiation analysis, Shade benefit evaluator	This session introduces an automated method to evaluate shading devices based on thermal comfort and also introduces how to set up a radiation analysis using Ladybug.	Intermediate Ladybug	75 min
16:15 to 16:30	Break			15 min
16:30 to 18:00	Sunlight hours/solar access analysis, Design challenge	The design challenge for day 1 will be provided to the attendees. The attendees will use their learnings from the workshop to solve two different design problems. The first design challenge explains the process of evaluating an existing condition against minimum solaraccess. The second example introduces a workflow to generate maximum possible massing in an empty lot while meeting the code for minimum change in vertical sky component.	Intermediate Ladybug	90 min
18:00	End of workshop

#2 Honeybee basics for daylighting in Grasshopper
Tuesday, March 20 2018
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

This workshop covers essential material for effective daylighting simulation with Honeybee including daylight factor, point-in-time grid-based and image-based daylight and basic introduction to climate-based annual daylight simulation. The session has an introduction to principles of daylight simulation and reviews inputs and outputs of each simulation. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Prepare geometry for daylight simulation
Create Radiance materials
Generate different Radiance skies
Run grid-based and view-based daylight studies
Generate customized result visualization

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper is not required but is recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
Radiance 5.1.0 or higher. Download and install Radiance from GitHub. Ensure Radiance is installed in a folder with no space or non-ASCII characters.
For this workshop you do not need to install EnergyPlus or OpenStudio.

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
9:00 to 9:30	Introduction	This lecture provides an introduction to daylight simulation and Radiance	Beginner	30 min
9:30 to 10:15	Materials Skies	This session introduces attendees to two of the most important inputs for a daylight simulation (materials and skies) and how to set them up in Honeybee.	Beginner Honeybee	45 min
10:15 to 11:00	Shadow range study	This session introduces the attendees to image-based recipes for daylight simulation as well as how to prepare customized result visualization.	Intermediate Honeybee	45 min
11:00 to 11:15	Break			15 min
11:15 to 12:15	Indoor daylight assessment	This session introduces the attendees to grid-based recipes for daylight simulation including daylight factor and point-in-time illuminance studies.	Intermediate Honeybee	60 min
12:15 to 13:00	Annual climate-based daylight simulation and metrics	This session provides an introduction to annual daylight analysis and why/when/how to use it during the design process.	Intermediate Honeybee	45 min
13:00	End of workshop

#3 Advanced daylight modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper
Tuesday, March 20 2018
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This session discusses advanced techniques to take advantage of parametric modeling environments as well as using advanced matrix-based methods using Honeybee[+]. The session includes an introduction to using Honeybee[+] API to create your own customized components in Grasshopper. In this workshop, you will:

Receive an overview of essential Radiance methods for daylight modeling
Run a daylight coefficient study
Run a multi-phase daylight model
Add dynamic shading and blind controls to your model
Use Honeybee[+] Python API for development

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper and intermediate knowledge of using Honeybee legacy for daylight modeling presented in morning session.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
Radiance 5.1.0 or higher. Download and install Radiance from GitHub. Ensure Radiance is installed in a folder with no space or non-ASCII characters.
For this workshop you do not need to install EnergyPlus or OpenStudio.

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
14:00 to 14:30	Multi-phase daylight simulation: What, Why and How	This presentation will essentially be a crash-course in the Radiance-based Multi Phase Methods. The theory and workflow for the Matrix-based methods will be discussed in context of the conventional approach of Daylight Coefficients that is employed in most daylighting softwares. The presentation will also discuss how this method enables designers to optimize both time and computational effort through data-reuse.	Intermediate Lecture	30 min
14:30 to 15:15	Annual daylight with enhanced direct solar calculation	This interactive module will introduce workflows for using 2-phase recipe for daylight modeling. The results will be compared with the results of annual analysis in morning session to clarify the improvements. The example used in this module will enable participants to familiarize themselves with the relevant components and methodology for performing daylight simulations with Honeybee[+].	Intermediate Honeybee[+]	45 min
15:15 to 15:30	Break			15 min
15:30 to 16:15	Result visualization, Annual daylight metrics	This session discusses a variety of options for exploring and visualizing the results of an annual daylight analysis, and reviews different annual daylight metrics including: Daylight Autonomy (DA), Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI), Spatial Daylight Autonomy (sDA) and Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE).	Intermediate Honeybee[+]	45 min
16:15 to 17:15	Dynamic blinds, Window groups	An exercise involving the use of multi-phase method to evaluate shading devices with adjustable settings. This exercise will demonstrate how the phase-based approach can be leveraged to optimize both simulation effort as well as computational runtime.	Advanced Honeybee[+]	60 min
17:15 to 17:30	Break			15 min
17:30 to 18:00	How to use Honeybee[+] API to create your own component or workflow.	The final session of this workshop presents a quick example on how to use Honeybee[+] Python API to create your own component/workflows in Grasshopper or Rhinoceros.	Advanced Honeybee[+]	30 min
18:00	End of workshop

#4 Honeybee basics for daylighting in Dynamo
Thursday, March 22 2018
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

This workshop covers essential material for effective daylighting simulation with Ladybug and Honeybee for Dynamo including daylight factor, point-in-time grid-based and image-based daylight and basic introduction to climate-based annual daylight simulation. The session has an introduction to principles of daylight simulation and reviews inputs and outputs of each simulation. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Prepare geometry for daylight simulation
Create Radiance materials
Generate different Radiance skies
Run grid-based and view-based daylight studies
Generate customized result visualization

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Dynamo is not required but is recommended.
Revit 2017 or higher
Dynamo 1.3 or higher
Ladybug and Honeybee packages for Dynamo. You can download the latest version from Dynamo package manager.
Radiance 5.1.0 or higher. Download and install Radiance from GitHub. Ensure Radiance is installed in a folder with no space or non-ASCII characters.
For this workshop you do not need to install EnergyPlus or OpenStudio.

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
9:00 to 9:30	Introduction	This lecture provides an introduction to daylight simulation and Radiance	Beginner	30 min
9:30 to 10:15	Weather data Sunpath	This session discusses how to use Ladybug sunpath effectively in combination with hourly weather data.	Beginner Ladybug	45 min
10:15 to 11:00	Materials Skies	This session introduces attendees to two of the most important inputs for a daylight simulation (materials and skies) and how to set them up in Honeybee.	Beginner Honeybee	45 min
11:00 to 11:15	Break			15 min
11:15 to 12:15	Indoor daylight assessment	This session introduces the attendees to grid-based recipes for daylight simulation including daylight factor and point-in-time illuminance studies.	Intermediate Honeybee	60 min
12:15 to 13:00	Annual climate-based daylight simulation and metrics	This session provides an introduction to annual daylight analysis and why/when/how to use it during the design process.	Intermediate Honeybee	45 min
13:00	End of workshop

#5 Airflow modeling with Butterfly in Grasshopper
Thursday, March 22 2018
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This workshop will introduces essential workflows for airflow simulation with Butterfly and OpenFOAM. Butterfly allows one to set-up and run Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations from inside Grasshopper to model indoor and outdoor airflow. This workshop will focus on the workflows of setting up models, executing simulation and visualizing the outputs. Material related to the physics of CFD will be limited to essentials. In this workshop, you will:

Receive an overview of CFD essentials
Learn how to create a FOAM case
Create a case folder
Prepare meshing for geometry
Run the case through OpenFOAM
Visualize the results in Grasshopper and ParaView

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper is not required but is recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Butterfly and OpenFOAM. Follow steps 0-2 from Getting Started with Butterfly to install OpenFOAM and Butterfly for Grasshopper.

Important note

The installation of OpenFOAM for Windows is not a trivial task. Especially if this is your first time for installation, there is a good chance that installation fails and you need to retry to fix it. We encourage everyone to start the installation process days before the workshops so we can help you before the workshop if you have any issues with installation.

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
14:00 to 14:30	Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and OpenFOAM	A presentation providing a brief introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics, OpenFOAM.	Intermediate Butterfly	30 min
14:30 to 15:30	Outdoor airflow, Geometry, boundary condition and meshing	An exercise to prepare an outdoor case using Butterfly in 3D and discuss preparation process, meshing and boundary conditions.	Intermediate Butterfly	60 min
15:30 to 15:45	Break			15 min
15:45 to 17:00	Outdoor airflow, Results visualization	An exercise showing how to run the solver and visualize results in Butterfly and ParaView.	Advanced Butterfly, ParaView	75 min
17:00 to 18:00	Indoor airflow, Optimization	An exercise to prepare an indoor case using Butterfly in 3D and 2D and discuss preparation process for setting up optimization studies using Butterfly and Galapagos.	Advanced Butterfly, Galapagos	60 min
18:00	End of workshop

#6 Energy modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper
Friday, March 23 2018
9:00 am - 6:00 pm

This course covers essential workflows for energy simulation with Honeybee. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Prepare geometry for energy modeling
Customize EnergyPlus materials and constructions
Visualize and edit zone properties, including loads and schedules
Run an energy simulation
Interpret results using flood plots, energy balances, and geometry colored with simulation data
Discuss workflows for going from CAD plans or Revit rooms to whole building energy models

Prerequisites

Familiarity with basic energy modeling principles is also highly recommended.
Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper is not required but is recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
OpenStudio 2.4

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
9:00 to 9:30	Introduction to energy modeling with visual scripting interfaces	This presentation provides an overview of the advantages of building energy models in scripting interfaces like Grasshopper.	Intermediate	30 min
9:30 to 11:00	Building a simple unconditioned test box model	The workshop starts by walking through the minimum amount of info needed to build an energy model of a single room. This session will end with running the model and visualizing the hourly temperature within the room. Lastly, the temperature data will be run through a thermal comfort model.	Intermediate Honeybee	90 min
11:00 to 11:15	Break			15 min
11:15 to 11:45	Adding shade to an energy model	After observing the hourly temperature within the test box, we will try to improve the comfort conditions by adding shade.	Intermediate Honeybee	30 min
11:45 to 12:30	Opening windows for natural ventilation	To improve comfort further, we will allow occupants to open windows and learn how to assign schedules for window opening.	Intermediate Honeybee	45 min
12:30 to 13:00	Changing constructions	To finish off the passive design of the space, we will add thermal mass and improve insulation on the windows.	Intermediate Honeybee	30 min
13:00 to 14:00	Lunch			60 min
14:00 to 15:00	Energy balances	Picking up where we left off, we will look at energy balance graphics for different building types and build a graphic for the morning’s test box.	Advanced Honeybee	60 min
15:00 to 15:15	Break			15 min
15:15 to 16:15	Adding HVAC systems	After adding all of the passive features from the morning, we will add an HVAC system to deal with the remaining uncomfortably hours. We will calculate energy use intensity from the results and track the energy impact of different HVAC strategies.	Advanced Honeybee	60 min
16:15 to 16:30	Break			15 min
16:30 to 18:00	Full building energy model workflows	For the final portion of the worksop, we will open an example file for a full-building energy model and go through how the model is set up. Workflow for going from CAD plans or Revit rooms to energy models will be discussed and the session will end by coloring zones with energy model results.	Advanced Honeybee	90 min
18:00	End of workshop

#7 Automated iterative modeling and analysis in Grasshopper
Saturday, March 24 2018
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

This workshop covers the best practices for automating parametric iterative studies. In this workshop, you will:

Select design criteria
Build a parametric energy model that represents these criteria
Automatically run through the design space of all possible combinations of these criteria
Visualize your results using Design Explorer

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of parametric modeling in Grasshopper is not required but is recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
OpenStudio 2.4
TTToolbox plugin. Download the latest released version from Food4Rhino.
A Google account with Google Drive (just the default account is ok and there’s no need to pay for additional space).

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
9:00 to 9:30	Introduction to parametric modeling	This lecture provides a brief introduction to parametric modeling in the building industry.	Beginner	30 min
9:30 to 9:45	Deciding on parameters	We’ll begin by selecting parameters that we want to test with our model.	Beginner Honeybee	15 min
9:45 to 11:00	Building a parametric model	Here we will set up a parametric test box model using Honeybee to run the energy simulation and TTToolbox to record results.	Beginner Honeybee	75 min
11:00 to 11:15	Break	Running the model.		15 min
11:15 to 11:45	Visualizing results in Design Explorer	We’ll upload the results that we generated during the break to Google Drive and then visualize them in Design Explorer.	Advanced Honeybee	30 min
11:45 to 12:45	Sensitivity analysis - comparing the magnitude of strategies	After loading results into Design Explorer, we will look at other means of processing the data to draw conclusions and make recommendations. Specifically, we will determine which strategies are the most effective over the data set.	Advanced Honeybee	60 min
12:45 to 13:00	Tips and tricks	We’ll briefly cover a few useful tips, including how to run parametric studies in parallel and other means of visualizing results.	Advanced Honeybee	15 min
13:00	End of workshop

#8 Thermal comfort modeling with Honeybee in Grasshopper
Saturday, March 24 2018
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

This course covers workflows indoor thermal comfort modeling with Honeybee. In this workshop, you will learn how to:

Calculate hourly thermal comfort from energy model results
Plot thermal conditions from energy models on psychrometric and adaptive comfort charts
Use energy model results to build detailed microclimate maps of building interiors
Map local discomfort from drafts and radiant asymmetry

Prerequisites

Familiarity with Honeybee energy modeling workflows as described in this video tutorial series is highly recommended.
Rhino 5.0 or 6.0
Grasshopper 0.0.0076 or higher
Ladybug + Honeybee legacy plugins. Download the latest legacy version from Food4Rhino and follow the installation instruction.
OpenStudio 2.4

Curriculum

Time	Topic	Description	Level	Duration
14:00 to 14:30	Introduction to thermal comfort	We will briefly review the inputs and history of the two main indoor thermal comfort models: PMV and Adaptive.	Beginner Lecture	30 min
14:30 to 15:00	Running energy model results through comfort models	We will open a pre-prepared Grasshopper script for a passive, unconditioned house energy model and run the results through the PMV and Adaptive models.	Intermediate Honeybee	30 min
15:00 to 16:00	Plotting energy model results on Psychrometric + adaptive charts	Next, we will plot energy model results on psychrometric and adaptive comfort charts. In this process, we will learn about the different criteria of the models (including PPD thresholds, maximum humidity thresholds, and when it’s appropriate to use each model).	Intermediate Honeybee	60 min
16:00 to 16:15	Break	Running the model.		15 min
16:15 to 17:30	Producing detailed thermal comfort maps	After reviewing the fundamentals from the morning, we will switch to running a multi-zone model of the house and produce detailed microclimate maps of the space in the hottest week of the year. We will test different passive strategies including shade, thermal mass, and earth tubes to ultimately make the space comfortable.	Advanced Honeybee	75 min
17:30 to 17:45	Local discomfort from downdraft	We will open a pre-prepared script for evaluating winter thermal comfort and draft discomfort near windows.	Advanced Honeybee	15 min
17:45 to 18:00	Local discomfort from radiant asymmetry	We will open a pre-prepared script for evaluating discomfort in conditions of high solar gain and evaluate radiant asymmetry between the subject’s head and feet.	Advanced Honeybee	15 min
18:00	End of workshop