Workshops
From the IBPSA conference, to ACADIA, to workshops in private offices, we have trained designers, engineers and building simulation experts alike. We pride ourselves on our ability to teach to different levels of expertise and we tailor our training material to meet the audience's needs. Check out our workshop packages to book a workshop for your office or institution and see our upcoming workshops to register for public workshops that are already scheduled.
Excellent content. Clear explanations. Hands on sessions with the developers themselves. It doesn't get any better than this!
Mohammad Hamza
TranssolarOpened my eyes to a whole new world of analysis.
Karl Cullen
ChapmanBDSPEvery aspect was carefully thought, well calibrated, and easy to follow.
Florencia Collo
AtmoslabGreat opportunity to interact with the developers of the tool but also to meet fellow "bugs" of the community!
Stefanos Papathanasopoulos
CundallUsing Ladybug Tools at work is a delight I look forward to on every project! I feel truly empowered to customise/optimise my workflow using both grasshopper nodes and now the python core [+] libraries.
Antoine Dao
BuroHappoldThe hands on approach in the advanced daylight modelling session gave me a great knowledge of the intricate workings of honeybee, I would highly recommend!
James Lacy-Smith
Atelier TenThe Ladybug Tools Workshop by Mostapha is extremely effective: As always - learning how to use software is only 50% of the game, the other 50% are what to do when you run into an error. Thus you need to have enough understanding of the tool and its concept as well as the core software.
Dietmar Geiselmann
TranssolarLearning HB has unlocked a lot of potential for us at Grimshaw.
Andy Watts
GrimshawI am pleased to have participated in the week long workshops held in London in 2018, they gave me excellent grounding to improve sustainability analysis of my projects. Ladybug Tools are state of art tools for environmental design and will continue to disrupt the industry!
Juliana Moreira
WSPI would like to highlight the motivation Mostapha and Chris set for us by providing engineers with such powerful tools as OPEN-SOURCE, this is aligned with true building performance by working for the greater good of the building industry instead of for the individual benefit, for that we will forever be greatful.
Karim Dada
ArupIt was a high value to speak to the founder directly with all his background knowledge rather than to another expert just representing a company like in most workshops.
Alexander Greising
TranssolarThe Ladybug Essentials workshop gives you a very good overview of the tools and their potential and it is well-suited for more advanced users too; the focus is placed on the workflow and how to solve an actual problem rather than setting standard analysis examples.
Angeliki Antoniou
HodkinsonI am highly impressed with the amount of exposure these workshops have been able to provide in understanding the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the environmental design whilst demonstrating the empirical outcomes.
Kartikeya Rajput
ChapmanBDSPWe currently do not offer our workshop packages!
Upcoming Public Workshops
Can't find one that fits your needs? Contact us for a custom training session.
November 12-17, 2018
09:00-18:00
Location
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Sydney Workshops, 2018
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
A week-long series of five workshop covering a range of topics including Ladybug Fundementals, Honeybee Daylight, Honeybee Energy, and Automated Parametric Workflows.
November 3-10, 2018
09:00-18:00
Location
Swinburn University
Melbourne Workshops, 2018
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
A week-long series of six workshop covering a range of topics including Ladybug Fundementals, Honeybee Daylight, Honeybee Energy, Butterfly and Automated Parametric Workflows.
October 25, 2018
14:00-18:00
Location
Thornton Tomasetti Office
51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Fundementals of Envelope Heat Flow with Honeybee THERM
Instructors: Chris Mackey, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari
This workshop will cover workflows for such iterative heat flow modeling with Honeybee, which is currently the only CAD plugin for THERM. Participants will gain literacy with geometry preparation for THERM models, will run THERM simulations from Rhino/Grasshopper, and will learn several workflows for processing THERM results for different applications.
September 13-17, 2018
09:00-16:00
Location
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Hack Kampmanns Plads 10, Pakhus 13, 8000 Aarhus C
Aarhus Workshops, 2018
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
A week-long series of five workshop covering a range of topics including Ladybug Fundementals, Honeybee Daylight, Honeybee Energy, and Automated Parametric Workflows.
September 7-11, 2018
09:00-16:00
Location
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
Njalsgade 17A, Pakhus 2, 2300 Copenhagen S
Copenhagen Workshops, 2018
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
A week-long series of five workshop covering a range of topics including Ladybug Fundementals, Honeybee Daylight, Honeybee Energy, and Automated Parametric Workflows.
September 5, 2018
13:30-17:00
Location
2018 International Radiance Workshop
Loughborough University, UK
An Introduction to Honeybee for the Radiance Users
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Sarith Subramaniam
This three-hour session will essentially be a guided-tour of Honeybee and Honeybee[+] for an audience that is familiar, or well versed, with Radiance. The goal of the workshop is to primarily demonstrate the automation, numerical-analysis and data-visualization features afforded through the intuitive graphic interfaces of Honeybee through Grasshopper.
March 19-24, 2018
09:00-18:00
Location
Chapman BDSP Offices
Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London
London Workshops, 2018
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
A week-long series of eight workshop covering a wide range of topics including Ladybug Fundementals, Honeybee Dalight (including Honeybee[+]), Honeybee Energy, Butterfly Airflow Modeling, and Automated Parametric Workflows.
October 19, 2017
09:00-18:00
Location
Thornton Tomasetti Offices
51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
D3.js and Mandrill: Data Management and Visualization
Instructors: Konrad Sobon, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
This lab will be an introduction to data visualization with D3.js, Mandrill and Dynamo. It will also be an introduction to concepts of data acquisition, formatting and visualization.
October, 13th, 2017
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 1001
Energy Analysis & Modeling Tools for Architects
Instructors: Chris Mackey, Mingbo Peng
Through prepared (modeled) examples, on-site instructors will provide a practical understanding of current energy modeling workflows and analyses for project design team members. Analyses will include early design sensitivity studies, later design analyses that support proposals to clients, energy modeling for LEED, and code compliance modeling.
August 6, 2017
08:00-17:00
Location
Pacific Energy Center
851 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Energy and Envelope Design with Honeybee OpenStudio + Therm
Instructors: Chris Mackey, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari
The session will focus on building energy modeling and envelope U-value modeling with the Honeybee plugin for Grasshopper. In the morning, participants will setup a parametric energy model and use it to perform a sensitivity analysis to inform intermediate stages of design. In the afternoon, instructors will explain the basics of modeling construction details with Honeybee THERM. Honeybee is currently the only plugin linking LBNL THERM and WINDOW to a CAD interface and so it provides the only alternative to THERM’s own drawing interface. At the end of the workshop, the results of the THERM models will be used to inform the energy models built in the morning.
August 5, 2017
08:00-17:00
Location
Pacific Energy Center
851 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Climate Data + Daylight Workflows with Ladybug + Honeybee
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
The session will focus on creating workflows for several types of sun-related studies using Ladybug and Honeybee. The morning will cover weather data visualizations as participants learn the logic of using Grasshopper and basic principles for generating customized climate graphics with Ladybug. The afternoon will explain the workflows for daylight modeling with Honeybee as participants learn to automate and run more advanced studies. Each half of the workshop will open with a short presentation defining the motivations for running the given studies followed by a hands-on tutorial and design exercise.
December 8, 2016
14:00-18:00
Location
Thornton Tomasetti Offices
51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
An introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics with Butterfly
Instructors: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
This workshop will introduce Butterfly – the newest addition to the insect community of Ladybug + Honeybee. Butterfly allows one to set-up and run advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations from inside Grasshopper using the validated, open source engine OpenFOAM. It’s recommended that you have at least a year-worth of visual scripting experience for attending this workshop. Grasshopper will be used for the workshop’s hands-on exercises but a number of similar examples and workflows will be shown with DynamoBIM. Prior knowledge of Computational Fluid Dynamic is preferred but not required.
December 8, 2016
09:00-13:00
Location
Thornton Tomasetti Offices
51 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Advanced Parametric Daylight Modeling: The Multi-phase approach with Honeybee[+]
Instructors: Sarith Subramaniam, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
This workshop introduces multi-phase daylighting modeling with Honeybee. It is intended for intermediate to advanced Honeybee users, who know how to set-up and run an annual daylighting analysis with Honeybee.
October 19-21, 2015
09:00-17:00
Location
University of Cincinnati SAID
Open data and performance
Instructors: Elcin Ertugrul, Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari, Chris Mackey
The workshop focuses on computational tools and workflows for exploring, analyzing and visualizing large, complex and dynamic geospatial data in a parametric visual scripting environment. Through a series of hands-on tutorials, attendees will be introduced to several different methods of quantitative environmental analysis using geospatial 'Open Data' and temporal climate data. Participants will practice different techniques of optimization and solution-finding, such as “brute force and filtering” and “multi-objective analysis” in order to address a number of design exercises presented during the workshop.