Abstract
ASHRAE Guideline 36 provides guidance for how typical commercial building HVAC systems should be controlled to reduce energy costs and improve the indoor environmental quality for occupants. An industry-led effort is developing test scripts for how control manufacturers can test that the control logic in their control products follows Guideline 36. This software intends to support that effort in two ways. First, by providing a testbed for control manufacturers to run the test scripts against their own control products and compare their generated results to the expected results provided by the test scripts. Second, by providing a testbed that can be used during the development of test scripts to rapidly and repeatably verify they exercise Guideline 36 logic as desired and generate accurate expected results that control products can be compared to. An initial version of the software has already been developed and released open-source by a previous CEC-funded project that implemented the first use case (https://github.com/LBNL-ETA/guideline36_conformance_test/blob/master/LICENSE.txt), while this software disclosure will add the functionality of the second use case, as well as update the software where needed, all open-source. We intend to extend and contribute to the existing open-source software repository.
- Developers:
-
Blum, David [1] ; Prakash, Anand Krishnan [1] ; Raza, Ahsan [2] ; Yoder, Tim [2]
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division (PNNL)
- Release Date:
- 2025-12-04
- Project Type:
- Open Source, Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Licenses:
-
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOEPrimary Award/Contract Number:AC02-05CH11231Other Award/Contract Number:AC02-05CH11231Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division (PNNL)Primary Award/Contract Number:AC05-76RL01830
- Code ID:
- 171399
- Site Accession Number:
- 2026-022
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Blum, David, Prakash, Anand Krishnan, Raza, Ahsan, and Yoder, Tim.
Guideline 36 Conformance Test v2.0.
Computer Software.
https://github.com/LBNL-ETA/guideline36_conformance_test.
USDOE, Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division (PNNL).
04 Dec. 2025.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20251208.4.
Blum, David, Prakash, Anand Krishnan, Raza, Ahsan, & Yoder, Tim.
(2025, December 04).
Guideline 36 Conformance Test v2.0.
[Computer software].
https://github.com/LBNL-ETA/guideline36_conformance_test.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20251208.4.
Blum, David, Prakash, Anand Krishnan, Raza, Ahsan, and Yoder, Tim.
"Guideline 36 Conformance Test v2.0." Computer software.
December 04, 2025.
https://github.com/LBNL-ETA/guideline36_conformance_test.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20251208.4.
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title = {Guideline 36 Conformance Test v2.0},
author = {Blum, David and Prakash, Anand Krishnan and Raza, Ahsan and Yoder, Tim},
abstractNote = {ASHRAE Guideline 36 provides guidance for how typical commercial building HVAC systems should be controlled to reduce energy costs and improve the indoor environmental quality for occupants. An industry-led effort is developing test scripts for how control manufacturers can test that the control logic in their control products follows Guideline 36. This software intends to support that effort in two ways. First, by providing a testbed for control manufacturers to run the test scripts against their own control products and compare their generated results to the expected results provided by the test scripts. Second, by providing a testbed that can be used during the development of test scripts to rapidly and repeatably verify they exercise Guideline 36 logic as desired and generate accurate expected results that control products can be compared to. An initial version of the software has already been developed and released open-source by a previous CEC-funded project that implemented the first use case (https://github.com/LBNL-ETA/guideline36_conformance_test/blob/master/LICENSE.txt), while this software disclosure will add the functionality of the second use case, as well as update the software where needed, all open-source. We intend to extend and contribute to the existing open-source software repository.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20251208.4},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20251208.4},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20251208.4}},
year = {2025},
month = {dec}
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