Subject:
Energy Modeling Information
Here is some information regarding modeling, per our discussion last week at the EEWG meeting:
Michael Deru, from the NREL Buildings group, is producing design guidelines for achieving 30% energy savings beyond ASHRAE 90.1-2004 for eight Army Corps of Engineers building types in 15 climate zones. These building types are training barracks, unaccompanied enlisted personnel housing barracks, small office building, maintenance facility, dining facility, medium office building, daycare center, and reserve center. Drafts have been completed for the first four of these buildings and the finals will be done soon. Work on the other four will start in October. The information will be publicly available. I would think the small and medium office buildings information would be useful.
Labs21 has draft energy modeling guidelines available at http://www.epa.gov/lab21gov/pdf/ashrae_appg_draft_508.pdf. There is a design guide that may be useful also - see http://www.epa.gov/lab21gov/toolkit/design_guide.htm .
NREL used DOE-2 for the new Science and Technology Facility and will likely use either DOE-2 or Energy Plus for the planned Research Support Facility.
AutoCAD
and the US Green Building Council (USGBC) have formed a partnership:
AutoDesk,
the creators of AutoCAD software, and USGBC recently announced that it has
entered into a strategic relationship with USGBC aimed at expanding the use of
technology and to facilitate further adoption of sustainable design and green
building. Autodesk and USGBC plan to work on several initiatives to make
sustainable design easier and more efficient through the use of technology such
as the Autodesk Revit platform for building information modeling (BIM). As the
first step, Autodesk and the USGBC plan to develop an educational curriculum
for architecture and engineering students.
More information is available on p. 2 of http://chapters.usgbc.org/westmichigan/docs/pdf/USGBCWM_Newsletter_Dec2006.pdf
Hope this information is useful. Please pass on all or some of it to the rest of the EEWG group.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best Regards,
Chandra Shah, Senior Project Leader
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)
1617 Cole Blvd, MS 1534
Golden, CO 80401-3393
303-384-7557
303-384-7411 (fax)
chandra_shah@nrel.gov