[Bldg-sim] sources for material libraries

[Chris Yates]

Hi Joe

CIBSE (UK) quotes HOF and, to my knowledge, doesn't use any other sources.

There's a lot of manufacturer data 'in the wild'. Perhaps this is an
opportunity to create such a resource as the WINDOW/ IGDB but for opaque
elements.

Chris

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On 16 Jan 2014 07:45, "Joe Huang" <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com> wrote:

>  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:
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>  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.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Christoph
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