Flexible Framework for Building Energy Analysis: Preprint

Title: Flexible Framework for Building Energy Analysis: Preprint

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In the building energy research and advanced practitioner communities, building models are perturbed across large parameter spaces to assess energy and cost performance in the face of programmatic and economic constraints. This paper describes the OpenStudio software framework for performing such analyses.

Authors:: Hale, Elaine; Macumber, Daniel; Weaver, Evan; Shekhar, Diwanshu

Publication Date:: 2012-09-01

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B)

OSTI Identifier:: 1051889

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5500-54773

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at the 2012 ACEEE Summer Study, 12-17 August 2012, Pacific Grove, California

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; building energy analysis; OpenStudio Software; energy efficiency measures; building energy modeling

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                    Hale, Elaine, Macumber, Daniel, Weaver, Evan, and Shekhar, Diwanshu. Flexible Framework for Building Energy Analysis: Preprint.  United States: N. p., 2012. 
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