[Bldg-sim] sources for material libraries

[Javed Iqbal]

You can look at Commercial Buildings Energy Modeling Guidelines and
Procedures. Appendix D can better serve your purpose. Here is the
downloading link.

http://www.comnet.org/

Hope this helps,


On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Christoph Reinhart <tito_ at mit.edu> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
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> We are currently assembling a material library as a basis for energy
> simulations and the question came up which source we should use to describe
> the various thermal and optical properties of  typical construction
> materials? A natural answer seems to be to use the ASHRAE Handbook of
> Fundamentals 2009 Chapter 26 which lists such numbers. Are these the tables
> that “all” of you are using or am I missing an important resource? What
> about our Canadian, European and other international friends? Would you
> scorn at an ASHRAE library and rather use your own numbers? This data input
> is obviously tedious so we want to avoid having to do repeatedly.
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> All the best,
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> Christoph
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Javed Iqbal, LEED AP, CEA
Energy Analyst
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