Shady,
I'd be very interested in discussing preliminary results of your survey
with you, wearing both with my EnergyPlus developer hat and my ASHRAE
TC4.7 Chair hat. Are you in College Station or in Europe? Who's your
advisor - Prof Haberl?
Thanks,
Phil
On 1/7/2009 8:56 AM, Shady Attia wrote:
> Dear Energy Plus Users,
>
> As part of my PhD research I am conducting a research about Architects
> Friendly Building Energy Simulation Tools (BESTs), so that we can improve
> the future development of simulation tools. Therefore the survey is
> dedicated to gather information from beginner simulation tools users.
>
> First of all, I am asking you please to take the survey and secondly, to
> spread this survey to any to other simulation tools users who meet the
> criteria mentioned below:
>
> 1-Architects or 2-Designers or 3-Graduate students or
4-Beginner Users who
> use simulation tools to create sustainable architecture in the USA
>
> The survey has 22 questions and the duration is 9 minutes (avearge). The
> compared tools are:
>
> ECOTECT, HEED, Energy 10,
> Design Builder, eQUEST, DOE-2, Green Design
> Studio, IES VE, Energy Plus and Energy Plus-Sketchup Plugin.
>
> You can access the survey via:
>
>
http://www.esurveys pro.com/Survey. aspx?id=1ae0b334 -2eca-4c3a- bf68-9db60b81bd4 5 <
http://www.esurveys pro.com/Survey. aspx?id=1ae0b334 -2eca-4c3a- bf68-9db60b81bd4 5>
>
> and if if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
>
> Best
regards,
>
> Shady Attia |PhD Student| ARCHITECTURE ET CLIMAT| BELGIUM
>
> PS: you can also send me a mailing list and I will send the invitations.
>
>
>
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