[BLDG-SIM] Fw: DOE-2 Down Under

[Larry Degelman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Veronica Soebarto" <veronica at arch.adelaide.edu.au>
To: "Larry Degelman" <larry at taz.tamu.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: [BLDG-SIM] DOE-2 Down Under


>
> >
> > > Hello Group
> > >
> > > In preparation for potential work in Australia, we are looking into
> > > available information/reference sources that might be utilized for
doing
> > > commercial building simulations.  Would anyone know:
> > >
> > > 1) If there is an Australian equivalent of the U.S. Commercial
Buildings
> > > Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS)?\
>
> As far as we know there is no Australian equivalent to CBECS (yet). I
> think currently such survey is being conducted by ...?. The closest that
> we know of is the Australian Building Energy Council (ABEC) of the
> Australian Greenhouse Office, which has done some analysis of energy
> consumption (including embodied energy and CO2 emission) of residential
> and commercial buildings. Our contact at ABEC/AGO is:
> Stephen Berry
> Stephen.Berry at ea.gov.au
> or visit: www.abec.com.au, or http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/
>
> > >
> > > 2) If there is an Australian equivalent of the National Climactic Data
> > > Center (NCDC) from which to get average and/or actual year weather
data
> > that
> > > is of sufficient quality to be used for DOE-2?  I already know about
the
> > > Australian weather data on the DOE2.com website.
>
> The national climatic data centre is the Bureau of Meteorology
> (www.bom.gov.au), but there is a company that produces/compiles hourly
> weather data for cities in Australia. The company name is:
> ACADS - BSG
> * Building Service Software *
> 18 High Street, Glen Iris Vic. 3146 AUSTRALIA
> Tel: +61 (3) 9885 6586   Fax: +61 (3) 9885 5974
> Send enquiries to Murray Mason at acadsbsg at ozemail.com.au
> Home page- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~acadsbsg/
>
> Hope this will help.
>
> Veronica
>
> --
>
> Dr Veronica Soebarto
> Senior Lecturer
> School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design
> Adelaide University SA 5005 Australia
>
> veronica at arch.adelaide.edu.au http://www.arch.adelaide.edu.au/
> Tel: +61 8 8303 5695     Fax: +61 8 8303 4377


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