Simulation Tools For Buildings
ATHENA Impact Estimator for Buildings
Architects, engineers and researchers can get life cycle assessment (LCA) answers about conceptual designs of new buildings or renovations to existing…
Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES)
The BEES software brings to your fingertips a powerful technique for balancing the environmental and economic performance of building products. The to…
Building Life-Cycle Cost (BLCC)
BLCC5 is programmed in Java with an XML file format. The user’s guide is part of the BLCC5 Help system. The program maintains the same basic approach …
Electricity Rates (ERATES)
ERATES (Electricity Rates) is used to calculate the monthly and annual electricity costs for a facility, building, or system under a wide range of ele…
EMISS
EMISS is a special-purpose computer program for use in generating data files that can be imported into BLCC4. EMISS output files contain location-spec…
Energy Escalation Rate Calculator (EERC)
The Energy Escalation Rate Calculator computes an average annual escalation rate for fuel prices from the annual energy price forecasts of the DOE Ene…
ENERGY-10
ENERGY-10 software is a powerful design tool that analyzes—and illustrates—the energy and cost savings that can be achieved through more t…
EnergyPlus
A new generation building energy simulation program that builds on the most popular features and capabilities of BLAST and DOE-2. Energy Plus includes …
Facility Energy Decision System (FEDS)
Provides a comprehensive method for quickly and objectively identifying energy improvements that offer maximum savings. It is an easy to use tool for …
Federal Renewable Energy Screening Assistant (FRESA)
The Federal Renewable Energy Screening Assistant (FRESA) Version 2.5 allows energy auditors in the DOE SAV Energy Program to quickly evaluate renewable…
Hourly Analysis Program (HAP)
A system design tool and an energy simulation tool in one package. Uses a Windows-based graphical user interface and 32-bit software. HAP’s design mod…
Life Cycle Cost in Design (LCCID)
WINLCCID is intended to be used as a tool in evaluating and ranking design alternatives for new and existing buildings. It provides many features of a…
Motormaster+
An energy-efficient motor selection and management tool, Motor Master+ software includes a catalog of over 20,000 AC motors. This tool features motor i…
REScheck
REScheck is designed to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of the Council of America Building Officials (CABO) Model Energy Code (MEC) and t…
Target Finder
Target Finder is an internet-based tool that helps you manage energy during the design of a new building. With Target Finder you can set an aggressive…
TRACE 700
TRACE™ 700 combines the power of the building and load design portions of TRACE 600 with the simplicity of a Windows-based operating environment…
Window Glazing Analysis Response and Design (WINGARD)
GSA developed a state-of-the-art method to analyze and predict the behavior of window glass under blast loads. This method, entitled Window Glazing A…
WUFI-ORNL/IBP
WUFI-ORNL/IBP is a menu-driven PC program which allows realistic calculation of the transient coupled one-dimensional heat and moisture transport in m.
