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Enscape Impact
The building performance add-on that empowers your workflow,
making your ideas sustainable from the start.
Enscape Impact: Real-time insights for sustainable design.
Enscape Impact, developed in partnership with global climate tech company IES, is a brand-new add-on designed to seamlessly integrate real-time rendering with building performance metrics. It empowers you to optimize building performance and sustainability directly within your workflow without compromising your creative vision.
Key features of Enscape Impact building performance software.
Enscape Impact offers the following features for a seamless, intuitive experience:
Real-time energy modeling simulation
Quickly calculate and evaluate key metrics as you design. See the data manifested within the render, making it easier to comprehend and communicate the impact of design decisions.
Integrated workflow
Perform analysis directly within your workflow to determine the energy efficiency and sustainability of designs early in the process. Enscape Impact directly integrates with most popular CAD and BIM tools, allowing you to maintain creative flow without interruption.
Minimal data entry
Establish a baseline analysis with only a few data points, including location and building type, to access fast and actionable insights.
Dials panel
Showcase the energy performance of your building design with easy-to-read charts and diagrams that intuitively display how geometry adjustments impact performance. Comprehensive tooltips provide easy-to-understand guidance for beginners in building performance concepts.
One unified workflow
Benefits of using Enscape Impact.
Easy integration
With a shallow learning curve, Enscape Impact enables you to prepare and run a dynamic simulation effortlessly, even without extensive training.
Data-driven decision making
Fast energy analysis provides immediate insights into building performance impact, facilitating quicker decision-making.
Increased productivity
Through a shorter and quicker feedback loop and efficient early-stage design corrections, carbon emissions, and project timelines can be reduced, as can design costs.
Enhanced communication
Designed to help architects and engineers communicate effectively, ensuring designs are both sustainable and more efficient.
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Revolutionizing building energy modeling
Buildings account for almost 40% of global energy-related carbon emissions. Forecast your building’s energy consumption and assess the key-performance metrics of your building, with fast and easy energy modeling simulations.
Enscape Impact allows you to perform early-stage design optimization and shortens the feedback loop, leading to buildings which are more energy efficient and cost-effective to build.
You can adjust your design, and analyze a building's performance without leaving your design environment, giving you immediate feedback on Peak Loads, Total Operational Carbon Emissions, Energy End Use, Energy Use Intensity, and more.
Unlike standalone building analysis tools or traditional CAD software without integrated analytics, Enscape Impact lets you make data-driven decisions quickly, enhancing both the aesthetic and functional quality of buildings while ensuring cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency.
Optimize energy consumption with Enscape Impact.
Click the Enscape Impact button on the Enscape toolbar to get started. Follow the tooltip pop-ups that appear over each metric for guidance.
Generate baseline analysis by inputting data such as the location, building type, and construction year.
Modify and benchmark data and see the results in real time. The results are integrated into the Enscape render.
Integration & compatibility.
Enscape Impact is fully compatible with major CAD and BIM software tools, such as Revit, SketchUp, Archicad, Rhino, and Vectorworks. The building energy modeling tool transforms architectural design by embedding energy analysis directly into the visualization process.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Enscape Impact is a new building performance analysis add-on, working hand-in-hand with Enscape core product. It allows architects and designers to conduct fast and easy energy performance assessments during the early stages of design, helping to make informed decisions that enhance sustainability and efficiency.
The current version, launched with Enscape 4.1, is available for free testing until the release of Enscape 4.2 in October.
The beta version is currently available on Windows only, but a version for macOS is planned for future development. We don’t have an estimation of the exact release date for Enscape Impact on macOS.
Between August and October 2024, we are offering Enscape Impact Beta as part of the Enscape 4.1 license and trial; This is a unique opportunity to test the beta version and evaluate our add-on. Update to Enscape 4.1 here or get your free trial on https://try.enscape.com
An add-on is a supplementary tool that extends the functionality of the Enscape core product, giving you a more intuitive and flexible way to empower your design workflow. Enscape Impact is an add-on to Enscape, having its own identity and offering additional value to the design workflow.
For those considering integration of Enscape Impact into their design workflow, Enscape will offer a cost-effective solution with robust modeling accuracy and affordable licensing models. The tool’s minimal hardware requirements make it accessible, avoiding the need for high-spec equipment.