[Bldg-sim] sources for material libraries

[Joe Huang]

This is an important and useful activity, especially for those of us who 
are working across national or regional boundaries.
It would be helpful to know what are the sources of technical data in 
places around the world. I would guess that there are
engineering manuals or handbooks equivalent to the ASHRAE HOF in many 
places.

Joe

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On 1/15/2014 7:48 PM, Christoph Reinhart wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> 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.
>
> All the best,
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
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