{"id":87,"date":"2011-02-16T14:03:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/altensis.com\/en\/"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:33:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:33:55","slug":"designbuilder-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/services\/designbuilder-software\/","title":{"rendered":"DesignBuilder Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designbuilder.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DesignBuilder-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/DesignBuilder-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DesignBuilder is an EnergyPlus based software \u00a0tool used \u00a0for energy, carbon, lighting and comfort measurement and control.\u00a0\u00a0DesignBuilder\u00a0is developed to ease up the building simulation process. DesignBuilder is comparing \u00a0alternative building designs by\u00a0using function and performance-based method of comparison results by the various analyzes in a\u00a0quick and economic manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DesignBuilder combines fast\u00a0three-dimensional building modeling with dynamic energy simulations with its unique ease of use. Thanks to this feature it is regarded as a unique software tool to create and evaluate building designs. It has specially developed modules in order to\u00a0be used effectively at any stage of the design process \u00a0Only a few parameters to provide a wide range of opportunity to work up to the more detailed design of the particular design.\u00a0DesignBuilder is easy to use. Its innovative productivity features allow even complex buildings to be modelled rapidly by non-expert users.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Design_Builder_Image_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Design_Builder_Image_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DesignBuilder has been developed to be used by a wide range of professionals such as architects, engineers, building services workers, \u00a0energy consultants and related departments of universities. Some typical usage purpose are summarized below:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>To evaluate facade options in terms of overheating , energy consumption and shading parameters.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation of the optimum use of daylight. Modelling of lighting control systems and determining the savings rate in the corresponding electricity.<\/li>\n<li>To calculate the buildings in\/around \u00a0temperature, velocity and pressure distribution by using the \u00a0CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) module.<\/li>\n<li>Visualization of the site plan and shading.<\/li>\n<li>Thermal simulation in buildings which are ventilated with natural ventilation.<\/li>\n<li>Determining the capacity of heating and cooling equipment to include the issues to help HVAC design.<\/li>\n<li>To provide material to design meetings for supporting \u00a0interdisciplinary communication.<\/li>\n<li>To be used in universities \u00a0in energy modeling and simulation\u00a0courses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DesignBuilder allows complex buildings to be modeled in a simple fast way\u00a0even by non-expert users. DesignBuilder is the first and most comprehensive program that creates a graphical interface to a Energyplus\u00a0dynamic thermal simulation engine. This graphical interface makes the design of the buildings, their energy performance and CFD simulations allow to be displayed in 3D to provide support for examination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DesignBuilder uses the latest version of EnergyPlus simulation engine\u00a0for calculating the energy performance of buildings . The resulting data can be filtered as desired and presented in graphs or can be exported in tabular format for use in other applications.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Design_Builder_Image_02.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Design_Builder_Image_02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Design_Builder_Image_02.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EnergyPlus<a href=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Eplus_Logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eplus_Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altensis.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Eplus_Logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EnergyPlus is the most comprehensive building energy simulation program developed by the US Department of Energy, in order to model building heating, cooling, lighting, ventilation and other energy flow, which \u00a0has been\u00a0constantly being improved. It is built on BLAST and DOE-2&#8217;s most popular features and capabilities , but at the same time it has many innovative features such as less than an hour simulation time, heat transfer balance-based zone simulation, multi zone air conditioning system, thermal comfort and photo-voltaic systems .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EnergyPlus is a simulation program with a user friendly graphical interface. DesignBuilder has created elegant and easy to use interface to EnergyPlus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In order to get DesignBuilder<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As exclusive representative of DesignBuilder, software sales , support, training, \u00a0energy modeling and simulation services are carried out directly by the Altensis\u00a0in Turkey . If you want to get more information about purchasing options, please contact us at, <a href=\"mailto:info@altensis.com\" target=\"_blank\">info[at]altensis.com<\/a>\u00a0via e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DesignBuilder is an EnergyPlus based software \u00a0tool used \u00a0for energy, carbon, lighting and comfort measurement and control.\u00a0\u00a0DesignBuilder\u00a0is developed to ease up the building simulation process. DesignBuilder is comparing \u00a0alternative building designs by\u00a0using function and performance-based method of comparison results by the various analyzes in a\u00a0quick and economic manner. 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