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A tour of the U.S. Green Building Council's headquarters
June 9, 2011
[Cross-posted from the
SketchUp blog
]
You could call our friends at
Igloo Studios
“multi-taskers”. While they mainly concentrate on creating
products
and
plugins
for designers and architects, they also have a
podcast
, a SketchUp
training program
and a popular
book
.
Their latest project is a
virtual tour
of the U.S. Green Building Council’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Note: you’ll need the Google Earth plugin installed to view).
This project is cool for lots of reasons. For starters, USGBC’s 75,000-square-foot facility is loaded with efficient and innovative green features that have earned the building a
LEED Platinum rating
. Professionals regularly tour the USGBC for real-world examples of successful green practices.
USGBC headquarters
However, not everyone has the luxury of being able to visit Washington DC, so Igloo Studios built this one-of-a-kind Google Earth
tour
of the building. Using a custom instance of the
Google Earth plugin
and building product catalogs from the
3D Warehouse
, Igloo was able to create a tour of both the exterior and interior of the building!
The tour features interactive elements
As you navigate through the 3D building, you’ll notice it’s jam-packed with other goodies like a guided audio tour, photos and embedded videos. You can even click on the building’s
materials and products
to learn more about the green tech used in its construction.
Once you finish the tour, you can launch a test that will earn you the same continuing education credits that you would get for taking the live tour.
And the coolest feature of all: if you find a building product during the tour that might be useful in one of your projects, you can download it directly into your SketchUp design!
Learn about building materials and then bring them into your model
If you're interested in learning more about how your products or buildings can be visualized in this way, be sure to send Igloo an
email
.
Posted by Chris Cronin, SketchUp Pro Sales
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