Building Technologies Office: EnergyPlus Energy Simulation Software

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption—for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, and plug and process loads—and water use in buildings. Its development is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Building Technologies Office. Some of the notable features and capabilities of EnergyPlus include: Integrated, simultaneous solution of thermal zone conditions and HVAC system response that does not assume that the HVAC system can meet zone loads and can simulate unconditioned and under-conditioned spaces. Weather data in a format that can be read by EnergyPlus is available on the website. EnergyPlus is a console-based program that reads input and writes output to text files. EnergyPlus is free, open-source, and cross-platform; it runs on the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.

OpenStudio - Getting Started on Linux These instructions assume Ubuntu 12.04 as the Linux distribution; however, they should work with little or no modification on other distributions (The main problems would be boost and qt dependency versions). Core Development Tools First ensure you have a set of basic development tools and core dependencies. sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev subversion libncurses-dev cmake-curses-gui libqt4-dev libboost-all-dev ruby-dev ruby swig libxt-dev doxygen graphviz Install CMake For Ubuntu 12, we recommend using the latest version of CMake, rather than the standard distribution. wget tar -xzf cmake-2.8.11.2.tar.gz rm cmake-2.8.11.2.tar.gz cd cmake-2.8.11.2 . Optionally Install Dakota Install gfortran, ATLAS, and LAPACK sudo apt-get install gfortran libatlas-base-dev liblapack-dev Register here, then download the Dakota 5.2 source code distribution. tar -xzf Dakota_5_3_1.src.tar.gz rm Dakota_5_3_1.src.tar.gz Add #include <stddef.h> to the top of .

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