Selected Energy Related Web Sites

Simulation Tools Directories

DOEs Building Energy Tools Directory http://www.eren.doe.gov/buildings/tools_directory/ Energy Ideas Clearinghouses Software Tools Directory http://www.energy.wsu.edu/ep/eic/eicsoft.htm FEMP (Federal Energy Management Program) Software Tools & Overview Listing http://www.eren.doe.gov/femp/techassist/softwaretools/softwaretools.html LBLs Building Technologies Program Software Tools summary listing: http://eande.lbl.gov/BTP/tools.html more detailed listing: http://eande.lbl.gov/Softwaretxt.html CTI Centre for the Built Environment, Software Resource List (British & European) http://ctiweb.cf.ac.uk/cticbe/reslist.html Lightforum.com's (Architectural Lighting Magazine) Lighting Tools Directory http://www.lightforum.com/software/index.html

Selected Building Energy Software Web Sites

BLAST DOE2 (via LBL) DOE2 (via JJH) EnergyPLUS eQUEST PowerDOE VisualDOE http://www.bso.uiuc.edu http://gundog.lbl.gov/ http://www.doe2.com http://gundog.lbl.gov/ http://www.energydesignresources.com http://www.doe2.com http://www.eley.com/software/frm_vd.htm

(topically)

DETAILED COMMERCIAL WHOLE BUILDING SIMULATION (alphabetical)

DETAILED RESIDENTIAL WHOLE BUILDING SIMULATION Energy10 http://www.sbicouncil.org/soft/index.html#dlebEn10

ENERGY CODE COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATION (alphabetical) EnergyGauge EnergyPro (CA) http://energygauge.com/default.htm http://www.energysoft.com/

WINDOW ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION (alphabetical) RESFEN-2.4 WINDOW-4.1 SolrPath THERM http://windows.lbl.gov/software/resfen/resfen.html http://windows.lbl.gov/software/window/window.html http://www-esl.tamu.edu/software/software.html http://windows.lbl.gov/software/therm/therm.html

HVAC DESIGN AND ANALYSIS (alphabetical) Carrier HAP http://www.carrier-commercial.com/ Trane: System Analyzer http://www.trane.com/commercial/software/analysis.asp TRACE 700 http://www.trane.com/commercial/software/analysis.asp

Selected Building Energy Software Web Sites (continued)

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Selected Energy Related Web Sites

LIGHTING/DAYLIGHTING VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS (alphabetical) 3-D STUDIO VIZ ADELINE LIGHTSCAPE LUMEN MICRO RADIANCE SUPERLITE-2.0 http://www.ktx.com/3dsvizr3/ http://radsite.lbl.gov/adeline/HOME.html http://www.lightscape.com/ http://www.lighting-technologies.com http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html http://eande.lbl.gov/BTP/wdg/superlite/superlite2.html

Building Energy-Related Links Sites

(alphabetical)

ACEEE's list of other web sites that concern energy efficiency http://www.aceee.org/altsites/index.htm ARI's list of related organizations http://www.ari.org/links/ Building Energy on the World Wide Web, University of Strathclyde, UK (British & European) http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/ESRU/courseware/ref_material/other_links.htm Building Science-related Hotlist of Web sites (British & European) http://www.bre.co.uk/bre/research/cagroup/consproc/itra/ra_info/hotlist.htm Built Environment Center Energy-Related Web Links (by Florida A&M) http://bec.state.fl.us:/fdi/bec/rel-site/fdi-lnk1.htm CEC's Energy-Related Web Directory http://www.energy.ca.gov/links/index.html (all energy-related categories) http://www.energy.ca.gov/links/conservation.html (energy efficiency only) Energy Sites to Visit on the Internet, by the California Energy Commission http://www.energy.ca.gov/links/index.html EnergySearch, by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) http://www.energysearch.com/ "HVAC/R Sites on the World Wide Web", hosted by Elite Software http://www.elitesoft.com/sci.hvac/hvac.html The Lighting Design Lab's (Seattle) Lighting and Energy-related Links Listing http://www.northwestlighting.com/library/links.html Solstice, by the Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) http://solstice.crest.org/index.shtml

Selected Energy-Related Publications Web Sites

ASHRAE Journal http://www.ashraejournal.org/ Building Energy Simulation Users News http://gundog.lbl.gov/ Energy and Environmental Management http://www.contractingbusiness.com/subsites/eem/index.html Energy Design Update http://www.cutter.com/edu/ Energy User News http://www.energyusernews.com/ Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning http://www.hpac.com/

(alphabetical)

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Selected Energy Related Web Sites HVAC Web Sites

(alphabetical)

HVAC/R Sites on the World Wide Web http://www.elitesoft.com/sci.hvac/hvac.html CARRIER http://www.carrier.com/ LENNOX http://www.davelennox.com/ McQUAY http://www.mcquay.com/ TRANE http://www.trane.com/ YORK http://www.york.com/

On-Line Calculators & Energy-Related Resources

Cool $ense, Integrated Chiller Retrofit Resource Web page http://ateam.lbl.gov/cs/cs.html DOE Office of Building Technology, "frequently used data" http://energydata.wdc.pnl.gov/l Directory of On-Line Calculators http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html Home Energy Saver (LBL) http://hes.lbl.gov/ Home Profiler (CEC) http://www.energy.ca.gov/homeprofiler/profiler.html Sun Angle Calculator http://susdesign.com/sunangle/ Whole Wall Thermal Performance Calculator (ORNL) http://www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls/whole_wall/index.html

(alphabetical)

University Research Groups (alphabetical)

Building Systems Laboratory (University of Illinois, Urbana) http://www.bso.uiuc.edu/ Built Environment Center (Florida A&M) http://bec.state.fl.us:/fdi/bec/ Energy Systems Laboratory (Texas A&M) http://www-esl.tamu.edu/esl_home_page.html Energy Systems Research Unit (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland) http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/esru.html Lighting Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/ National Institute of Building Sciences (Florida A&M) http://www.nibs.org/nibshome.htm Solar Energy Lab (University of Wisconsin, Madison) http://sel.me.wisc.edu/ Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (Dept of Architecture, EPFL, Switzerland) http://lesowww.epfl.ch/

Government Laboratories, Agencies, etc. (alphabetical)

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Selected Energy Related Web Sites

Center for Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies (IEA) http://www.caddet-ee.org/ Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST) http://www.crest.org/ Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) http://www.cecer.army.mil/ Energy Crossroads (LBL) http://eande.lbl.gov/CBS/eXroads/EnergyXroads.html Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (DOE) http://www.eren.doe.gov/ Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) http://www.fsec.ucf.edu LBL Energy & Environment home page http://eande.lbl.gov/EE.html LBL Building Technologies Program home page http://eande.lbl.gov/BTP/BTP.html National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) http://www.nist.gov/ NTIS - Plug Into A World of Information http://www.ntis.gov/index.html Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) http://www.ornl.gov/ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) http://www.pnl.gov

Design Guides, Glossaries, etc. (alphabetical)

Glossary of Terms related to Modeling and Simulation for Environmental Engineering http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk/courseware/ref_material/ref_glossary.htm Process Guidelines for High-Performance Buildings http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/resource/index.html Whole Building Design Guide http://www.wbdg.org/ Lightforum.com's (Architectural Lighting Magazine) Glossary of Lighting Terms http://www.lightforum.com/glossaries/index.html Lighting - the Electronic Textbook (U. of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design) http://www.arce.ukans.edu/book/contents.htm

Selected California Energy Commission (CEC) Web Sites

CECs Title 24 Standards (including publications) http://www.energy.ca.gov/title24/ CECs Energy Technology and Education Center (Energy Quest) http://www.energy.ca.gov/education/index.html CECs List of Approved Computer Programs (1998 Stds) http://www.energy.ca.gov/efficiency/computer_prog_list.html CECs Site for down loading appliance databases http://www.energy.ca.gov/efficiency/appliances/index.html

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Selected Energy Related Web Sites Associations, Organizations, Centers, etc. (alphabetical)
ACEEE - American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy http://solstice.crest.org/aceee AEE - Association of Energy Engineers http://www.aeecenter.org/index.htm APEM - Association of Professional Energy Managers http://www.apem.org/ ASHRAE - American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers http://www.ashrae.org/ BOMA - Building Owners and Managers Association http://www.boma.org/ Building Environment and Thermal Envelope Council (BETEC) http://www.nibs.org/betechm.htm Building Simulation Users List Server (BLDG-SIM) - see link at the Gard Analytics page http://gard.com/ Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (UK) http://www.cibse.org Energy Ideas Clearinghouse http://www.energy.wsu.edu/eic/ Global Energy Marketplace database http://gem.crest.org/ Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) http://www.iesna.org/ International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) http://www.iald.org/ IBPSA - International Building Performance Simulation Association http://www.ibpsa.org/ IREM - Institute for Real Restate Management http://www.irem.org/index.htm Lighting Design Lab (Seattle, WA) http://www.northwestlighting.com/ Lighting Research Center (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's School of Architecture) http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/ Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) http://rmi.org

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