Introducing: quickSAP The Home Energy Modelling plugin for Sketchup As we highlighted in our last Newsletter, February saw the launch of quickSAP, the new Home Energy Modelling plugin for Sketchup that has been created by BWP Architects and is designed for architects and designers to run energy use calculations directly in Sketchup using minimal data and basic 3D design models. It is ideal for early testing of design ideas and energy efficiency parameters while also producing detailed results that can be used to prepare Energy Efficiency Reports for outline design and planning stages without the need for additional consultants involved. Leigh Brooks, the Director at BWP Architects responsible for the creation of quickSAP, explained that having been a user of Sketchup for over 15 years he had spent a long time looking for his Holy Grail of SketchUp; a way of interrogating early outline sketch models in a quick and simple way to test design choices to see the potential impact of these on carbon emissions and energy efficiency. Having come across various solutions to this over the years but all are too expensive, require huge amounts of complex data input and information, are too focussed on minutia and obtaining … Continue reading quickSAP: Energy Modelling for Architects