Building Energy Simulation for Beginners

hello the concrete block that energy plus uses is hollow or no?

Hi, For building surfaces, the only object for defining the ground temperature is Site:

Hi, The syntax for locating the objective function, in the latest GenOpt, is like this: Name1 =

Hi, Before testing the files, I would say put the weather file in the weather files folder under

Hi all, I'm attempting to optimize an Energyplus model using inputs from Daysim (through GenOpt).

I should add that I wanna gain the amount of lighting energy saving Thanks

Hi I wanna compare the ratio of transparent to opaque area of south elevation in energy consumption.

Hi, a) Defining ventilation with DesignFlowRate object (with default coefficients) has nothing to do

You should read I/O reference to find these things. If you are new in modelling HVAC system in

Hi, 1) This is a vinyl frame exported from Window 7. The frame has a U-Value of 1.7 but the resulting

Hello, Farhang. Yestarday, we were talking with you about the problem of model exporting from

Hi, I want to simulate a building with "nocturnal radiative cooling" system, -it has a

Hi, I can't quite understand the workflow. But if you want to add this interior wall to turn one

Hi, The easiest solution I can think of is to define the window with multiple surfaces in your GUI.

Hi, 1) To start, you should go to building model options (F11) and change the natural ventilation

Hi, From I/O reference: Phase Change Material is used to describe the temperature dependent material

Hi, 1. I didn't completely understand your description, but if you can imagine it as a 2D

Hi, We had the same question before: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bes_fb/tHNxmZd8k18/9hrKi1EB0O4J

I'd like to inform you that the new EnergyPlus 8.0.0 supports sub-hourly values for schedule:file

Hi, I don't have any exact answer for your question. Personally, I don't think simulating

Hi, When there is no EPW file available based on the local measured data, as a last resort, one can

Hi Anna, thank you for sharing the new plugin for Grasshopper . it sounds great . have a nice

Hi, As we are in holidays something else came into my mind! If you remove the heating and cooling

Hi, I didn't have any people and light schedule, yet. Although I don't have any of them, I

For your information: https://openstudio.nrel.gov/forums/openstudio-plug-sketchup/general-discussion/

Thanks Hassan, I overlooked the instructions. The graph I send was made from a software I tried to

Hi, This is an archive of Ecotect educational resources, which is not offered by Autodesk anymore:

Hi, If anybody is interested in comparing the results of exercises 5b and 5c with those of mine, my

Hi, OpenStudio 0.9.5 has been released. It is available on OpenStudio website, under the Developers

Hi, It has been explained step by step in exercise (i guess ex3). also u can look in IO reference for