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 OpenStudioSoftware 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 |
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| Number of pages | 11 |
| State | Published - 2011 |
| Event | Building Simulation 2011 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 14 Nov 2011 → 16 Nov 2011 |
Conference
| Conference | Building Simulation 2011 |
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| City | Sydney, Australia |
| Period | 14/11/11 → 16/11/11 |
NREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5500-51836
Keywords
- EnergyPlus
- high-performance buildings
- integrated whole-building energy analysis
- multidisciplinary building simulation
- open source analysis platform
- OpenStudio Software Development Kit
- radiance simulation tools
- SDK
- software framework
- systems integration