Why Sefaira is better...
- Support Cross Team
Collaboration - Built With Sustainability
at the Core - Functional, Secure,
Stable and Fast
Sefaira Concept
With Sefaira Concept, architects, engineers, consultants and other green building designers have powerful, real-time green building analysis at their fingertips.
Traditional thermal simulation packages help you assess compliance at the end of your design cycle.
Sefaira Concept helps rapidly analyse and evaluate what-if options as you iterate swiftly throughout your design process.
Sefaira Concept |
Benefits |
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| Rapid energy modeling |  |
Real time feedback on design strategies to enable “what if” analysis |
| Collaborative analysis | |
Work as a team to evaluate multiple design strategies and find best performers |
| Compare design options | |
Compare and contrast retrofit bundles based on chosen performance criteria |
| Integrated renewable strategies | |
Choose optimum renewable strategies which match your building’s demand profile |
| Water use analysis | |
Identify best measures for saving water as well as reduce hot water energy demand |
| Easy access to data | |
The whole project team has access to the same energy model and scenarios throughout the design project, facilitating collaboration and minimizing spread-sheet chaos. |
How do I get Started?
Sefaira Concept is an intuitive web-application, and it can be used with little or no prior training.
Sefaira Concept works directly witn your existing Google SketchUp concept designs, and all you need to get started is a SketchUp file and a log-in to the web-application.
Sefaira Concept is currently available to users in firms that are participating in Sefaira's Early Adopter Program.
The "Nowak Ghana" project. Credit: RSP Planet
Rapid Energy Modeling
Sefaira Concept - cloud based analysis for true Rapid Energy Modeling
- Rapid analysis of building energy use
- Full physics based simulation
- Immediate and quantified feedback for design team and decision makers
- The flexibility of a spread-sheet with the power of a true hour-by-hour thermal simulation
- All accessible from your web browser
Collaborative Analysis
Sefaira Concept is designed for collaborative evaluation
of design strategies
- Full transparency for stakeholders
- Work individually or as a team – maximise collaboration
- Maximise project productivity – no files to keep track of
- No versioning or data concurrency issues
Renewable Technologies
Sefaira Concept provides integrated analysis of renewable technologies
Fully integrates analysis of renewable energy options with the building demand, by evaluating a wide range of technologies, e.g.:
- Photo Voltaic Arrays (Roof Integrated, Roof Mounted, Façade Integrated)
- Heat Pumps (Ground Source, Air Source)
- Solar Thermal (Water)
- Combined Heat & Power
- Wind Turbines
- Accurate sizing of renewable options relative to demand
- Instant feedback on in-building use, as well as exported energy
- Understand financial benefit of generation and export of electricity (support for Feed-in-Tariffs)
Compare Design Options
Sefaira Concept helps users compare design options in real time
- Study several design options simultaneously
- Rapid comparison of concepts and designs along user defined criteria
- Keep suitable design strategies and discard options that around found to be less effective
- Comparison of multiple design concepts – without leaving the browser
Water Use Analysis
Sefaira Concept integrates analysis for water saving technologies
- Understand impact of water saving strategies on hot water use as well as water use reduction
- Size greywater and rainwater tank for optimum utilization
Easy Access to Data
With Sefaira, everyone has easy access to models and results
- No loss or misplacement of data following along the project – all participants have access to the same data-set and files
- Full transparency for users