Links and References

ASHRAE

U.S. Department of Energy

LEED:

Login: LEED v2.2 Reference Guide (New Construction)

Login: LEED v3 Reference Guide (New Construction)

Login: LEED v4 Reference Guide (New Construction)

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ASHRAE Reference Guidelines:

ASHRAE 90.1 - Energy Standards for Buildings (except low-rise residential)

ASHRAE 62.1 & 62.2 - Thermal Comfort for Buildings

Note: LEED v2 = 90.1-2004, v3 = 90.1-2007, v4 = 90.1-2010

Residential and Commercial Code Compliance Check (IECC):

REScheck - 2009, 2012, 2015 IECC - check residential building compliance to code

COMcheck - 2009, 2012, 2015 IECC - check commercial building compliance to code

ASHRAE Standards/Guidelines online versions

U.S. Weather Data (sub-hourly, hourly, daily, monthly, yearly) - NOAA National Center for Environmental Information

TMY, TMY2 (manual), TMY3 (manual), TMY4 (reference) for the U.S. - U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab

National Solar Radiation Database - U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab

eQuest .bin Weather Files - LBNL & James J. Hirsch & Associates

Energy Plus EPW and DDY files - U.S. Department of Energy

Climate Change EPW file generator (based on IPCC predictions) - University of South Hampton

Climate Design Conditions 2009, 2013 - ASHRAE

EnergyPlus (residential/commercial building energy simulation) – software; reference

eQuest/DOE2 (mostly commercial buildings energy simulation) – software; reference

OpenStudio (mostly commercial buildings, energy simulation) – software; reference

BEOpt (and DVIEW) (residential buildings energy simulation) – software; reference

Google SketchUp/Make (for showing 3D model of EnergyPlus/OpenStudio) – software; reference

THERM (thermal modeling) – software; reference

WINDOW (window performance, for use with THERM) – software; reference

WUFI (1D moisture modeling, lite version is free, limited to 2 yrs simulation) – software;

Energy & Buildings

Buildings & Environment

Energy

Applied Energy

Building Simulation

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Journal of Architectural Engineering (ASCE)

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems