Big Ladder Software is pleased to announce that we are leading our EnergyPlus for Practitioners and EnergyPlus EMS Controls workshops in Denver! These workshops will be held on April 13 - 15 in our downtown office.
https://energyplus-denver-04-2020.eventbrite.com
EnergyPlus for Practitioners
Workshop Description
- Have you ever wanted to truly understand how to use EnergyPlus at the text level?
- Have you been using OpenStudio, DesignBuilder, or another GUI and had the need to peek under the hood to debug a problem or implement a measure or workaround?
This workshop should be a prerequisite for anyone planning to work with EnergyPlus regardless of what user interface you choose.
This two-day workshop focuses on the needs of the energy modeling practitioner in order to get you up to speed and highly productive with EnergyPlus as quickly as possible. We cover the fundamentals of EnergyPlus such as geometry and internal loads while rapidly ramping up to advanced topics such as HVAC systems and controls. We guide you through the complexities of the EnergyPlus syntax, input/output files, documentation, and essential software tools including the Euclid plugin for SketchUp. Most importantly, we teach you how to use the available resources to teach yourself going forward. Demonstrations and hands-on exercises are used extensively throughout. By the end of the workshop, you should be comfortable with creating, running, and debugging EnergyPlus models.
EnergyPlus EMS Controls
Workshop Description
This one-day workshop covers the Energy Management System (EMS) capability of EnergyPlus, which allows the implementation of custom control strategies and calculation routines that override standard modeling processes within EnergyPlus. We cover the EnergyPlus Runtime Language (Erl) that is used to describe the custom control programs, how to create EMS components (sensors, actuators, output variables, etc.), and how to debug the execution of EMS programs. Lecture topics include how to create advanced HVAC control sequences,
how to override default HVAC operation (flow rate, setpoint
temperature, capacity, etc.), how to abort a simulation when operational
faults occur, and how to use outputs to generate trend data.
Demonstrations and hands-on exercises are used extensively throughout.
Previous experience with EnergyPlus is strongly recommended but not required.Â
Regards,
-- Aaron Boranian