[Bldg-sim] Advise on Daylighting program

[Stephen Selkowitz]

Paul
You might try COMFEN, an early design tool for facades and daylighting that
runs EnergyPlus and provides access to WINDOW, Radiance and a variety of
glazing and shading data bases. You can do multiple comparative simulations
simultaneously to compare heating/cooling/daylighting tradeoffs.  An updated
version will be out by end of August but you can download V3 at
http://windows.lbl.gov/software/comfen/comfen.html
There is a Users Manual and Video Tutorial along with the software download.

STeve


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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Paul Hay <phcjam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advise Shubhra! I've downloaded the PDF and about to read it
> now.
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> *From:* Shubhra Kothari <shubhrakothari at gmail.com>
> *To:* Paul Hay <phcjam at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Bldg-Sim <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:33 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Bldg-sim] Advise on Daylighting program
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> Look at this paper -
> http://www.ibpsa.us/pub/simbuild2010/papers/SB10-DOC-TS03A-02-Gagne.pdf
> Jamie Gagne gave a demonstration of the program developed at MIT to
> suggest optimum window size + shading + glazing combination. It was pretty
> cool. All you need to input is the sketch up block geometry and specify
> illumination and glare criteria.
> I am not sure about the commercial availability of this though.
>
> Hope this helps
> Shubhra
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hay <phcjam at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Can anyone advise if there is a daylighting program that uses intended
> illumination levels to generate window options? I remember reading about one
> long ago from an article by Eliyahu Ne'Eman: I believe from LBL UC(Berk.). I
> never heard of it since that article in Energy & Buildings.
>
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> Caribbean Project Management & Planning
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> Jamaica, W.I.
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