Design Approach
Integrating Energy Engineering & Performance Modeling into the Design Process
This PDF provides a recommended scope of energy engineering and performance modeling services to support the development of very energy efficient, high performance buildings. This energy engineer/modeler will enhance the design team's understanding of project opportunities and constraints, challenge the design team to examine key questions, act as an advocate and serve as a design team resource to improve a building's energy performance throughout each design step.
ReThinking Design
At the heart of the process from programming through schematic design is the search for synergies, a highly iterative, open ended analysis of all of the major components and options.
Energy Design Resources Online Energy Analysis Tool
EDR Charette is an online tool that allows you to quickly investigate the energy impacts of various design scenarios on a typical building, and then review the analysis graphically in an easy to understand web-based format.
Understanding the Energy Modeling Process: Simulation Literacy 101
Demystifying energy modeling for design and facilities-planning professionals.
High-Performance Building
High-Performance Building gives architects a practical guide to excellent, sustainable design, showing how to analyze and evaluate the buildings "as built." Taking a hands-on view of sustainability, the author provides designers with specific benchmarks for high performance and energy efficiency. Utilizing the latest methods for analysis of climate responsive design.
MIT's Design Advisor
Architects and Building Designers can use computer modeling to explore options to improve indoor comfort and energy performance of conceptual building designs. But most simulation tools are too complicated for this purpose. Quick, visual comparisons are needed for early-stage design. The MIT Design Advisor is a tool which allows you to describe and simulate a building in less than five minutes. No technical experience or training is needed. An annual energy simulation can be run in less than a minute, and graphical results are immediately available for review. And it's free.
