The IES VE SketchUp plug-in means you can now consider the environmental performance of your building directly from SketchUp, with direct access to all of IES' tools: VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits, VE-Gaia and VE-Pro.

For many architects and other professionals in the building design industry, this level of integration is what they have been waiting for -- it allows empowering energy, carbon, daylight and solar analysis, and much more to be undertaken at the touch of a few buttons, right from the earliest stages of the design process, where the maximum difference to sustainable design can be achieved.

Try out the integration -- use our free VE-Ware tool to test yearly energy consumption, carbon emissions, and benchmark against the Architecture 2030 Challenge.

You can download some sample models from 3D Warehouse by going to sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse and searching for IESVE.