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Embrace sustainable design concepts. Understanding the concepts behind sustainable design is an important part of being able to perform analysis within the Revit model and a critical factor in today's design environment.

Master It What are four key methods for a holistic sustainable design?

Leverage schedules. Using schedules in Revit helps you track many of your design elements throughout the whole design process. These schedules can also be used to validate programmatic information during conceptual design.

Master It Explain how to create a schedule from a conceptual mass that will show the programmatic areas for each floor level.

Use sunshading and solar paths. Understanding the effects of the sun on a building design is a ...

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