Leadership - Based on years of development, testing and utilization in multiple projects, Virtualwind's products are the #1 solution to complex microclimate challenges facing architects and engineers in a broad variety of applications. With an extensive portfolio of successful projects, Virtualwind has established a plausible and credible position as the leader in micro-climate simulation.

Efficacy - The Virtualwind products have proven to be a valuable suite of tools that can be used effectively at every stage in the design process. Ease-of-use and flexibility in the front-end are combined with a robust microclimate simulation back-end that provides full-featured data analysis and visualization. During the master planning stage, as ideas and concepts are being developed and considered, early designs can be created with the level of available detail, including surrounding terrain and existing buildings. Early design guidance regarding microclimate influences and overall site design can be visualized and analyzed. Throughout later stages, as various design options are considered, proof-of-concept simulation can be performed to confirm appropriate optimization of designs for energy efficiency, comfort and safety.

Importance - Micro-climate simulation studies have proven to be an indispensable component to support optimization of designs for energy efficiency, comfort and safety. Whereas in the past, the analysis of these factors was considered a "nice-to-have", the considerations of micro-climate impacts, especially in complex urban environments or in considerations of sustainability, have resulted in a heightened awareness that architectural and wind engineering studies are actually a "need-to-have".

Impact - The highly visual output of Virtualwind provides an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-use, tool that presents highly complex data in a format that enables rapid analysis of the relevant information. As such, Virtualwind is building on decades of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies at R&D labs such as NASA, which have demonstrated that these types of data representations of abstract data are powerful tools to reinforce cognition, hypothesis building and reasoning. The impact of visualization is recognized in a broad range of disciplines such as: reservoir engineering, weather and climate forecasting, medicine, astrophysics, chemistry, medicine, data mining . . . the list goes on and on.

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