This article is part of BD+C's special five-part Technology Report 2014: Top tech tools and trends for AEC professionals. For more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Energy has made its EnergyPlus ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a new version of its EnergyPlus building energy analysis simulation program. EnergyPlus models a building’s heating, cooling, ventilating, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released OpenStudio, a free energy design plug-in that works seamlessly within the Google SketchUp 3D drawing environment. The U.S. Department of Energy ...

QCoefficient uses model predictive control (MPC) to pre-cool 13 of the 108 floors on Chicago’s Willis Tower. This figure shows cumulative energy use in 30 minute intervals between June 11 and Sept. 28 ...

The U.S Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. National Labs released updated versions of open-source whole-building energy modeling tools: the EnergyPlus engine and the OpenStudio software ...