SRG Technical Reports - Interoperability


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link to
EnergyPlus
page 		Interoperability: Getting Building Geometry from CAD
Information about which CAD programs support IFCs for transferring geometry data into EnergyPlus IDF format.

 
sb13.pdf Specification and Implementation of IFC-Based Performance Metrics to Support Building Life Cycle Assessment of Hybrid Energy Systems, , by Elmer Morrisey, James O'Donnell, Marcus Keane and Vladimir Bazjanac. Proceedings of the SimBuild 2004 Conference, 4-6 August 2004, Boulder, CO, IBPSA-USA.

 
pdf document IFC HVAC INTERFACE TO ENERGYPLUS . A CASE OF EXPANDED INTEROPERABILITY FOR ENERGY SIMULATION
V. Bazjanac (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA) and T. Maile (Institut für Kernenergetik und Energiesysteme (IKE), University of Stuttgart, Germany). Proc. SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation, August 4-6, 2004, Boulder, CO, USA.

 
pdf document BUILDINGPI: A TOOL FOR BUILDING LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS
Proc. SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation, August 4-6, 2004, Boulder, CO, USA.

 
pdf document SPECIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF IFC BASED PERFORMANCE METRICS TO SUPPORT BUILDING LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF HYBRID ENERGY SYSTEMS Elmer Morrissey(1,2), James O.Donnell(1,2), Marcus Keane(1) and Vladimir Bazjanac(2)
1--IRUSE, National University Of Ireland, Cork, Ireland 2--Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA, USA
Proc. SimBuild 2004, Building Sustainability and Performance Through Simulation, August 4-6, 2004, Boulder, CO, USA.

 
pdf document Building Energy Performance Simulation as Part of Interoperable Software Environments
Vladimir Bazjanac (Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA).
Building and Environment 39 (2004) 879-883

 
pdf document Improving Building Energy Performance Simulation With Software Interoperability
Vladimir Bazjanac (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720)
Proc. 8th Int.l IBPSA Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 11-14, 2003.

 
pdf document BSPRO COM-SERVER: INTEROPERABILITY AMONG SOFTWARE TOOLS USING INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES
Antti Karola, Hannu Lahtela and Reijo Hänninen, Olof Granlund Oy, (Olof Granlund Oy, Helsinki, Finland), Rob Hitchcock (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), Qingyan Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Stephen Dajka (AEA Technology, Canada), Kim Hagström (Halton Group, Finland)
Proc. Seventh International IBPSA Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 13-15, 2001

 
EnergyPlus
pdf document 		ACQUISITION OF BUILDING GEOMETRY IN THE SIMULATION OF ENERGY PERFORMANCE,
Vladimir Bazjanac, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA. Proc. Building Simulation 2001, IBPSA, Rio de Janeiro, August 13-15, 2001.