The application is designed to reside on the mobile device and has middleware that stores the information collected by the scanners or tablets and uploads the appropriate data to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) or accounting system.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced follow-on funding for the two Buildings topic winners of the Catalyst Energy Innovation Prize. The companies, Kinetic Buildings and Livable Analytics, are developing software to diagnose faulty building HVAC operation and to better understand building occupant satisfaction.
The traditional, and still dominant, uses of energy modeling are all associated with building design, such as HVAC system selection and sizing and code compliance. But energy modeling has impactful post-occupancy uses as well.
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) announced that its IES Virtual Environment (IESVE) software has been officially approved for compliance with the state of Minnesota’s Sustainable Building 2030 (SB 2030) Energy Standard.
The global building energy software market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.24 percent over the period 2014-2019, according to a report by Technavio.
A set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models to match measured data is now available as open source code. The Autotune code, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is available on GitHub.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that its EnergyPlus™ software, which models whole-building energy and water use, has been rewritten in the C++ programming language for improved performance. EnergyPlus lets users model design and operation alternatives — including HVAC system changes — on building energy performance.
As many as 3,000 parameters can be specified when modeling a building’s energy use. Newly developed “Autotune” calibration software reduces the amount of time and expertise needed to optimize building parameters for cost and energy savings.
DesignBuilder Software has released version 4 of its whole building energy simulation program, DesignBuilder. The company said this new version adds a substantial set of new features and improvements oriented to the different but overlapping needs of engineers and architects.