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Welcome to the Building Technologies Office's Building Energy Modeling blog.
A new Ruby gem, openstudio-standards, delivers two significant and closely related capabilities.
Chicago firm QCoefficient uses model predictive control (MPC) to pre-cool large commercial buildings, savings hundreds of thousands of dollars and tons of CO2.
Energy modeling is often used to evaluate ECM payback, calculating the operational energy savings that accrue after an initial capital investment. One
National lab researchers are working with U.S. military to evaluate energy-efficient base structures.
OpenStudio Measures are short programs that can be used to transform models, create custom visualizations and reports, and automate modeling workfl...
Hourly energy modeling—and specifically DOE’s advanced hourly energy modeling engine EnergyPlus—is poised to assume a greater role in residen...
If you are a BEM professional, know a BEM professional, or even follow one on LinkedIn or Twitter, you’ve probably heard the news.
This week, BTO published two important and related documents regarding its Building Energy Modeling (BEM) program.
Autodesk’s interest in EnergyPlus has been public for some time. In 2013, the company underwrote the translation of EnergyPlus from FORTRAN.
One of the exciting recent entrants into the building design and analysis software marketplace is London/New York-based startup Sefaira.