ENVI-met GmbH Essen, Germany

ENVI-met GmbH, headquartered in Essen, Germany, specializes in high-resolution numerical simulation tools that help architects, urban planners, and environmental scientists predict microclimatic conditions within cities. Its flagship product, ENVI-met, is a three-dimensional non-hydrostatic model that calculates the interactions among buildings, vegetation, soil, and the atmosphere at spatial resolutions down to one meter and temporal steps of one to five seconds. Typical use cases include evaluating the cooling effect of green roofs and façades, optimizing street-canyon aspect ratios for natural ventilation, assessing the impact of new high-rise clusters on pedestrian thermal comfort, and testing large-scale adaptation strategies such as additional parks, water bodies, or reflective pavements. The software is frequently coupled with GIS platforms and CAD/BIM workflows to translate climatic findings into concrete design guidelines, supporting municipalities in meeting overheating mitigation targets and compliance with biometeorological standards like UTCI and PET. ENVI-met’s output variables—air temperature, humidity, wind vectors, mean radiant temperature, and pollutant dispersion—feed directly into environmental impact reports, health studies, and sustainability certifications, making the package a standard component in climate-responsive master-planning across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and allowing batch installation alongside other applications.