[BLDG-SIM] Software for Modelling Ventilation and Thermal Mass

[Tupper, Kendra]

I'm currently working on a project in Berkeley, CA with an underground
concrete building with very high thermal mass.  We would like to avoid
air conditioning by mechanically ventilating the building at night, and
would like to model this for some preliminary results.  

Does anyone have any suggestions for an appropriate software program to
model this?  Are the ground heat transfer/thermal mass modeling
capabilities of DOE 2.2 are sufficient to model this project in eQuest
or Visual DOE?

Right now, we are planning on using EnergyPlus, but I wanted to make
sure there wasn't another (less time consuming option) out there!  Does
anyone know if any of the EnergyPlus interfaces could handle this (i.e.
Design Builder)?

Thank you!

Kendra


Kendra Tupper		
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http://www.flackandkurtz.com	kendra.tupper at sf.fk.com
 

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