Advanced daylighting, electric lighting, and thermal analysis.

ClimateStudio is the fastest and most accurate environmental performance analysis software for the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. Its simulation workflows help designers and consultants optimize buildings for energy efficiency, daylight access, electric lighting performance, visual and thermal comfort, and other measures of occupant health. ClimateStudio is a plugin for Rhinoceros 3D and requires the latest service release of version 6, 7, or 8.

**LEED & BREEAM CERTIFICATION**

One-click Daylight and Quality Views reports submissible to USGBC for LEED certification, plus daylight and view analysis for BREEAM certification and EN 17037 compliance.

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Best-in-class lighting engine built on top of Radiance. Calculates sDA to the latest LM-83 standards and simulates annual daylight with dynamic shading.

**NET ZERO**

PV potential and multi-zone energy modeling, built on EnergyPlus, with battery storage to demonstrate net-zero feasibility.

**THERMAL COMFORT**

ASHRAE-55 compliant thermal comfort calculations, with annual, spatially resolved maps that reveal local comfort problems early.

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Illuminance and contrast-based metrics for occupant comfort, assessed from hundreds of viewing positions for every hour of the year.

**ELECTRIC LIGHTING**

Illuminance calculations and visualizations using IES photometry. Place and edit luminaires and calculate lighting power loads.

**CLIMATE ANALYSIS**

Shadow studies and weather data visualization — including interactive visualizations of temperature, humidity, wind, radiation, and UTCI conditions on site — drawing on 30,000+ weather files.

**VIEW**

View distance and content analysis, with customizable view factors and automated LEED Quality Views reporting.

**CIRCADIAN HEALTH**

Spectral illuminance calculations and biological weighting functions for assessing circadian stimulus and targeting WELL compliance.

**PRODUCT INTEGRATION**

Integrated products from manufacturers — including Kinspan Light + Air, Kalwall, Saint Gobain, and Solatube — as well as thousands of materials, constructions, and templates from real-world measurements and standards.

**PARAMETRIC TOOLS**

Fully parametric daylight and energy modeling via Grasshopper. Optimizations, sensitivity analysis, and automated model generation have never been easier.

**FAST AND ACCURATE**

Built on EnergyPlus and a novel RADIANCE-based path tracing technology, ClimateStudio is the fastest and most accurate simulation software on the market. Yes, faster than cloud-based tools. And yes, more accurate than DIVA-for-Rhino. Finally, reliable results at 1000x the speed.
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Testimonials

Ulrike Passe, Iowa State University | ClimateStudio Testimonial

“ClimateStudio has been a game changer, not only have I immediately upon release, been able to exchange it for DIVA in our M.ARCH’s Sustainable Design Studio ARCH 601. But we are now also using CS in the 4th year building technology labs with 85 students, and as more and more of my colleagues are coming around to including simulations into their studio assignments, we can now fully include environmental performance metrics throughout the professional architecture programs.”

— Ulrike Passe, Professor of Architecture, Director Center for Building Energy Research, Iowa State University

“Designing with daylight is essential to our work, not only to save energy but to craft the atmosphere of spaces and enhance the visual comfort of the occupants. Climate Studio's speed and intuitive interface accelerate our design process by letting us think about all these aspirations earlier, more rigorously, and more creatively than we could otherwise.”

— Michelle Lee, Architect at Behnisch Architekten

“I always found glare very tricky to analyze and time consuming, due to its camera view and point in time sensitivities, but ClimateStudio allows us with just one run to have an overall understanding of which camera views will be receiving glare at what time of the year, to then get a whole spherical view of luminance mapping and glare source identification images.”

— Blanca Dasi Espuig, Sustainable Design Specialist at HOK

“ClimateStudio is really a game changer which helps us achieve way faster and accurate results in the context of daylighting and glare studies. We expect not only daylighting experts and modelers, but also architects/designers to engage the tool in their daylighting design process due to its user-friendly interface and quick feedback loop.”

— Cheney Chen, Senior Sustainable Bldg + Energy Engineer at Perkins&Will

“After using ClimateStudio for a while, I’m completely blown away. It’s so fast and comprehensive, and the high level of customization lets me analyze any form with ease. I can’t wait to see how practical understanding of environmental design concepts will increase as the use of this plugin spreads in the industry, because it’s really so incredible.”

— Katie Koskey, MIT MArch student

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