[Bldg-sim] BESTTEST Certification

Joel Neymark neymarkj at msn.com
Sat Jun 20 06:18:41 PDT 2009


Ross,

To add to Michael Donn's and Linda Lawrie's comments ....

U.S. Department of Energy maintains a list of software that have satisfied the requirements under the U.S. federal tax code for the purpose of qualifying software for calculating commercial building tax deductions. The requirements include submittal of ASHRAE Standard 140 test results. The listing is at: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/qualified_software.html

In addition to that, individual software providers can post a record of their validation work on the DOE Tools directory:
http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/ (but at the moment i get an error message when i try to link there).

joel

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Donn 
  To: Harding, Ross 
  Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] BESTTEST Certification


  Hi Ross

   

  Typically the vendors publish their BESTEST data online. The BESTEST system is one of self-certification, not a central authorising body... (see http://www.iea-shc.org/task34/index.html )

   

  ASHRAE Standard 140 incorporates some of the IEA BESTEST suite and I understand over time will incorporate more. (http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy06osti/40360.pdf )

   

  I am not aware that ASHRAE 'certify' software in the way you seek.

   

  m

   

    

   

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  From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Harding, Ross
  Sent: Thursday, 18 June 2009 2:10 p.m.
  To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
  Subject: [Bldg-sim] BESTTEST Certification

   

  Hi All,

   

  Does anyone know where I can find a list of BESTTEST certified Building Energy Simulation software?

   

  I can only find that Energy Plus has done the test, but not that it is BESTTest certified?

   

  What about TAS 8.5, does anyone know where the BESTTest certification is?

   


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