Lifesize Plans

Lifesize Plans is an emerging brand with growing relationships in community engagement. We are on the path to creating traditions and true global change by providing collaborative spaces connecting people, design, and innovation. Forecasting to grow the Lifesize Plans Brand with 20 locations opening over the next 12 months around the world is our upcoming goal.

Born in 2017 in Sydney where the Head Office is located, fast forward five years we now have patented projection technology to floor map the plan and blow it up to Lifesize, so clients building their own home can walk on their plan as it would be built Lifesize and allow them to visualise and identify changes they needed to make before construction begins and which saves time and money.

Residential, commercial, and retail walkthroughs

We work with volume and custom builders, landscape and pool designers, architects and interior designers, owner builders, and more. For large-scale commercial and retail walkthroughs, have your stakeholders, construction, and design team on the same page and collaborate at our showroom and experience the project in Lifesize.

Any designer, architect, or builder can bring their personalised laptop and software and plug into our patented technology, allowing them to make live changes while the client is standing on their 1:1 floor plan.

We also exhibit intense expertise in sales and networking events. We make use of our state-of-the-art full AV technology and catering options for a fully immersive experience for your guests.

Our other commendable service is Lifesize Reality. We provide a space at our showroom where the real world meets Extended Reality (Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality).

Besides, after the plans are finalized, we add another layer of sophistication to the project design by immersing ourselves in the Metaverse. Stand inside your Lifesize model, Build Walls, Test Furniture, Select Colors, and Specify and see the finer details; meet compliance and regulations are the facilities that clients get to experience at Lifesize Plans.

We are a very forward-thinking business and will stay ahead of the market with our industry partnerships and continuous research and development. Watch this space!

Right: PH Live Sync extracts information directly from the PHPP and updates the BIM to improve the workflow and speed up the design process.

PH Live Sync is a new software development company, created specifically to assist building designers and architects with developing Passivhaus projects using Autodesk® Revit® and the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP)

The company was founded in 2020 by Anthony Burns who is the director of a boutique building design office in Melbourne Australia, with more than 20 years’ industry experience in residential and commercial projects.

In 2016 Anthony was introduced to the Passivhaus building methodology through his involvement in the design and documentation of a new home in Emerald Victoria, which was one of the early Passivhaus projects in Australia to be certified.

In 2020, Anthony became a Certified Passivhaus Designer and after becoming familiar with the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP), which is the calculation tool used for performance analysis of Passivhaus building designs, he wanted to develop a software tool to integrate Revit® directly with the PHPP to streamline the design process.

“I started using the visual programming tools available in Revit® to extract the relevant PHPP data more quickly and accurately from the Building Information Model (BIM), as manual entry into the PHPP can be time consuming and prone to human error.

Once the BIM data extraction process was working, I then wanted the tool to be able to extract information directly from the PHPP and update the BIM to improve the workflow and speed up the design process, ultimately reducing the cost of designing and developing Passivhaus projects for my current and future clients.

When the prototype was completed and fully tested, I then hired developers to assist with the coding and creation of a full developed software add-in I called ‘PH Live Sync’ which I launched mid this year.

I hope PH Live Sync will make the adoption of Passivhaus easier for other designers and ultimately lead to more sustainable and energy efficient buildings around the world!”

About the software:

The focus of PH Live Sync is to simplify the process of getting the relevant Passivhaus data from the BIM into the PHPP, and to make it easy to sync the adjustments and changes designers make in the PHPP back to their BIM.

PH Live Sync is fully integrated into Revit® with no external tools or special processes (such as file exporting) required to sync with the PHPP, meaning designers can fully leverage the power of BIM and preserve a dynamic and fully functional building model within Revit®

PH Live Sync has been built for both small and large projects from single dwellings through to complex commercial buildings, with fast and reliable data processing. There is no limit on the number of elements that can be synced from Revit® to the PHPP and additional data rows are automatically added to the PHPP for larger projects when the default worksheets limits are reached.

PH Live Sync pushes and pulls data from the Verifications, Areas, Windows & Shading, and Climate Worksheets of the PHPP and syncs all the elements that make up the building’s Thermal Envelope, the Projected Building Footprint, and the Treated Floor Area. Thermal Bridges are also captured, as well as windows and doors and the shading objects that influence them.

The software comes with a 14-Day free trial and can be downloaded from www.PHLiveSync.com allow design professionals to rapidly integrate products into their preferred design software.