DesignBuilder is a user-friendly modelling environment where you can work (and play) with virtual building models. It provides a range of environmental performance data such as: energy consumption, carbon emissions, comfort conditions, daylight illuminance, maximum summertime temperatures and HVAC component sizes.
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Some typical uses of DesignBuilder are:
- Calculating the impact of various design options on building energy consumption.
- Evaluating façade options for overheating and visual appearance.
- Thermal simulation of naturally ventilated buildings.
- Reporting savings in electric lighting due to use of natural daylight.
- Prediction of daylight performance through Radiance simulations.
- Visualisation of site layouts and solar shading.
- Calculating heating and cooling equipment sizes.
- Detailed simulation and design of HVAC and natural ventilation systems including the impact of supply air distribution on temperature and velocity distribution within a room using CFD
- ASHRAE 90.1 and LEED energy models.
- Economic analysis based on construction costs, utility costs and life cycle costs (LCC)
- UK, Ireland and France Building regulations and certification reports
- Design optimisation with multiple objectives, constraints and design variables.
- Life-cycle analysis (LCA)
- Communication aid at design meetings.
- An educational tool for teaching building simulation to architectural and engineering students.
