CEA Learning Camp

The CEA Learning Camp is a new initiative we started in mid-2023.

Our past tutorials mainly focused on how-to use CEA*, while the new CEA Lessons are shifting the focus towards how-to use the results of CEA simulations. In other words, now that you have the simulation results, so what? The CEA Learning Camp guides you use the CEA results to support your architectural, urban or energy system design.

You can find the CEA Lessons following two tracks: Designer and Engineer Tracks. In general, architects and urban designers may wish to follow the Designer Track, and energy engineers may wish to follow the Engineer Track. Meanwhile, either track consists of a series of modules.

*Please be noted that the past CEA blog and video tutorials are labeled as legacy and still available to you on the CEA Website until further noticed.

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Zhongming Shi 22/05/2023 Zhongming Shi 22/05/2023

[cea-b-02] PV panels and where to place them 1: value for money?

Want the highest possible PV electricity yield? To achieve this, a simple method is to apply PV panels onto every inch of the building envelope. However, obviously it is not always this simple. This CEA Lesson provides you a method to identify the building envelope surfaces for PV installations using CEA.

Zhongming Shi 10/05/2023 Zhongming Shi 10/05/2023

[cea-b-01] Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Design Module: Introduction

Now that you have the results of CEA energy potential: photovoltaic (PV) panels simulation, how are you going to use them in your design? This module guides you through a series of topics regarding urban and architectural design with BIPV using CEA.