To further understand the accuracy of results generated with Enscape Impact, IES conducted a test, comparing project results from Impact 4.1 and IES VE. This article will give us a quick overview of those results. A seven storey office building in London, UK was used as a base model for the comparison.

The Variations with respect to glazing changes of 10% and 25% show a very similar improvement between both software applications.

Further testing is currently being carried out, across more model archetypes and locations and also design changes.  These test results will be turned into a white paper and published with the release.

Overall, there is a variance of 12% between Enscape Impact & IES VE results. 

Baseline is within a good tolerance between Impact and the IES VE; this is attributed to known factors such as how the geometry is modeled in Impact and differences in the default datasets applied to the model, both of which will be improved over time.

While there are discrepancies in the results, the results clearly show that the impact of the change is in the right direction. As such, the user will have enough information to know if the change they are making has a positive or negative impact and by approximately how much of an impact, e.g. 10%, 15%, 20% etc. 

Impact runs on the IES Apache technology. If you want to learn more, check out the Enscape Impact Video Tutorial.