OpenStudio: An Open Source Integrated Analysis Platform

Rob Guglielmetti; Dan Macumber; Nicholas Long

OpenStudio: An Open Source Integrated Analysis Platform

Rob Guglielmetti, Dan Macumber, Nicholas Long

Building Technologies and Science Center

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Abstract

High-performance buildings require an integrated design approach for all systems to work together optimally; systems integration needs to be incorporated in the earliest stages of design for efforts to be cost and energy-use effective. Building designers need a full- featured software framework to support rigorous, multidisciplinary building simulation. An open source framework-the OpenStudio Software Development Kit (SDK)-is being developed to address this need. In this paper, we discuss the needs that drive OpenStudio's system architecture and goals, provide a development status report (the SDK is currently in alpha release), and present a brief case study that illustrates its utility and flexibility.

Original language	American English
Pages	442-449
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2011
Event	Building Simulation 2011: 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association - Sydney, Australia Duration: 14 Nov 2011 → 16 Nov 2011

Conference

Conference	Building Simulation 2011: 12th Conference of International Building Performance Simulation Association
City	Sydney, Australia
Period	14/11/11 → 16/11/11

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5500-51836 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5500-57538

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