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Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs
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For the past 50 years, a wide variety of building energy simulation programs have been developed, enhanced and are in use throughout the building energy community. This paper is an overview of a report, which provides up-to-date comparison of the features and capabilities of twenty major building energy simulation programs. The comparison is based on information provided by the program developers in the following categories: general modeling features; zone loads; building envelope and daylighting and solar; infiltration, ventilation and multizone airflow; renewable energy systems; electrical systems and equipment; HVAC systems; HVAC equipment; environmental emissions; economic evaluation; climate data availability, results reporting; validation; and user interface, links to other programs, and availability.
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- Crawley, D. B., Hand, J. W., Kummert, M., & Griffith, B. T.
- Venue
- Building and Environment
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-04
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 661-673
- ISSN
- 0360-1323 (ISSN-L)
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- W2128120029
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- FWCI
- 103.05
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- Language
- en
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- green
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