Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES)

Joint collaborative development work between Graphisoft and IES has resulted in the establishment of a tight connection between the 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) tool ArchiCAD^® and the IES suite of sustainable building energy and performance analysis tools. ArchiCAD^® users can now benefit greatly from the sustainable performance analysis capabilities of IES. The ArchiCAD^® connection to IES, via gbXML, has been greatly enhanced to provide a tried and tested connection. This connection is available in version 12 onwards of ArchiCAD^® and version 5.9.1 onwards of the .