The Environmental Intelligence Series is part of NORDFY’s broader EI program, which responds to increasing environmental pressures and the need for resilient, data-driven design. Across three focused online sessions, participants progressively move from foundational climate data skills to more advanced comfort and passive-strategy analysis.

In Session 1 – Detecting climate variables: Managing weather data, attendees learn how to gather and manage climate information using online sources and computational tools such as Ladybug Tools within Rhino and Grasshopper. The session emphasizes importing EPW/weather data, reading key variables like temperature, humidity, and wind, and understanding how these metrics begin to influence design thinking.

Session 2 – Intro to Ladybug Tools: Environmental Study Sheet builds on that foundation, introducing participants to the structure of environmental study sheets. Using Ladybug Tools, they learn to summarize climate insights into clear visual and quantitative outputs that can guide early design moves and inform communication with clients and collaborators.

In Session 3 – Understanding Psychrometric Charts and Passive Strategies, the focus shifts to advanced climate interpretation and comfort analysis. Participants work with psychrometric charts, enthalpy, and related metrics to understand thermal comfort and evaluate passive design strategies appropriate to specific climates. The session links data to action: how strategies such as shading, natural ventilation, or evaporative cooling emerge from the climate framework.

Together, the series equips participants with both the conceptual grasp and practical tool skills needed to embed environmental intelligence into design processes from the very beginning.

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