The American Institute of Architects has made it easier for its members to report their progress toward the AIA’s ambitious goal of carbon neutrality in the built environment. A new digital feature of the AIA 2030 Commitment’s reporting system allows for the automatic transfer of a project’s design data from a firm’s energy-modeling analysis software to the AIA’s tracking tool.
The automated data transfer, developed in conjunction with Autodesk Inc., allows firms to report their project and portfolio performance directly from Autodesk Insight 360—an energy modeler included in Autodesk Revit and Autodesk FormIt 360 Pro subscriptions—to AIA’s Design Data Exchange (DDx) tracking tool. AIA announced the feature at the AIA Convention 2016, held May 19-21 in Philadelphia and attended by 21,000 people.