Simplified Building Energy Modeling Tool for Architects: Simplified Software Tool for Architects and Energy Efficient Building Design Professionals

Simplified Building Energy Modeling Toolfor Architects is an energy software program designed to study the relativechange of energy uses in different architecturaldesign schemes. It can be used in the design process, construction, and daily operation of most buildings. This energy-based interfacing program is intended to help architects, engineers, educators, students, building designers, major consumers ofarchitectural services, and other professionals, whose work interfaces with that ofarchitects, to quickly visualize, and compare energy performance and savings of different design schemes. The techniques are sophisticated enough to inform design decisions, enable performance analysis and diagnostic studies. The book begins with the importance of and outlines its scope of work, problems, hepotheses, innovative approach, objectives, methodology and procedure, assumptions and limitations, research findings, and outcommes and results, takes the readers into a historical development and recent trends of building energy modeling, analysis, and design tools, then explains the major concepts of the software tool: module and its parameters, and many diffent functions that the tool can do.