Optimize building performance.
Integrated cost, energy, and carbon analysis in Autodesk® Revit® for residential buildings.
Overview
Analyze Building Performance
Analyze Building Performance
Analyze Building Performance
Calculate building performance metrics like cost, energy code compliance, and heating/cooling loads using your Revit® model.
Compare Designs
Analyze Building Performance
Analyze Building Performance
Compare existing designs or design options, or explore any combination of new ones. Automatically generate code minimum designs.
Explore Design Tradeoffs
Analyze Building Performance
Explore Design Tradeoffs
Use our integrated database to build out design options and explore construction assembly tradeoffs. Or, integrate your own data.
Features
Cost
Energy code compliance
First cost and monthly loan payment estimate with location-specific data (US only).
Energy code compliance
Energy code compliance
UA energy code compliance analysis validated against REScheck.
Heating/cooling loads
Simplified balance point energy analysis for ballpark annual heating/cooling loads.
Embodied carbon
Coming soon!
Integrated database
Integrated (residential) construction assembly database, updated quarterly.
Location-specific data
Apply location-specific cost and weather data (US only).
Auto code minimum model
Automatically create an energy code minimum version of your design (currently IECC 2021 only).
Tradeoff analysis
Compare construction assemblies and view clear building performance metrics in numeric and chart form.
Compare designs
Copy, modify, and compare multiple building designs at once.
Share results
Share designs and custom construction assemblies between xStar users.
Export data
Export quantity takeoffs, REScheck input data and more.
Integrated uncertainty analysis
Use a range for costs or R-values and see lower and upper bounds for your building performance estimates.
Why xStar?
Our Goal
Our mission is to make sustainable design the norm, not the exception. $$$ should not be a barrier. That is why our software is/has:
- Free for students & academic researchers (contact rick@xstarresearch.com for non-commercial use).
- Free support & extended 30-day free trial (help us help you and give feedback that makes the software better!)
- Always improving. See our list of planned analysis improvements and roadmap here.
