TY - GEN
T1 - Climate consultant 3.0
T2 - Solar 2007: Sustainable Energy Puts America to Work, Including 36th ASES Annual Conference, 32nd National Passive Solar Conference and 2nd Renewable Energy Policy and Marketing Conference
AU - Milne, Murray
AU - Liggett, Robin
AU - Al-Shaali, Rashed
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Designing and remodeling buildings that are truly climate responsive depends first on gaining a detailed accurate understanding of the local climate. A newly revised design tool called Climate Consultant 3.0 has just been released that is intended for architects, students of architecture, builders, contractors, and knowledgeable homeowners. It reads the local climate data for all 8760 hours per year in EPW (EnergyPlus Weather) format files which are now available for over a thousand stations around the world. For any chosen location Climate Consultant 3.0 will display dozens of different graphic images of various weather attributes and will suggest building design strategies appropriate for the unique characteristics of that climate. Both Climate Consultant and EPW Climate Data are available on the web at no cost. Compared to the prior versions, the new Climate Consultant 3.0 is now written in Java making it compatible with both Mac and PC machines. Instead of using the older compressed TMY climate data, it now directly reads EPW files which include over a thousand new stations. It now also allows instant conversion between Imperial (inch-pound) and Metric (SI) units. Climate Consultant 3.0 also adds a number of new features, especially the new Wind Wheel.
AB - Designing and remodeling buildings that are truly climate responsive depends first on gaining a detailed accurate understanding of the local climate. A newly revised design tool called Climate Consultant 3.0 has just been released that is intended for architects, students of architecture, builders, contractors, and knowledgeable homeowners. It reads the local climate data for all 8760 hours per year in EPW (EnergyPlus Weather) format files which are now available for over a thousand stations around the world. For any chosen location Climate Consultant 3.0 will display dozens of different graphic images of various weather attributes and will suggest building design strategies appropriate for the unique characteristics of that climate. Both Climate Consultant and EPW Climate Data are available on the web at no cost. Compared to the prior versions, the new Climate Consultant 3.0 is now written in Java making it compatible with both Mac and PC machines. Instead of using the older compressed TMY climate data, it now directly reads EPW files which include over a thousand new stations. It now also allows instant conversion between Imperial (inch-pound) and Metric (SI) units. Climate Consultant 3.0 also adds a number of new features, especially the new Wind Wheel.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84867877638
SN - 9781604233087
T3 - American Solar Energy Society - Solar 2007: 36th ASES Annual Conf., 32nd National Passive Solar Conf., 2nd Renewable Energy Policy and Marketing Conference: Sustainable Energy Puts America to Work
SP - 466
EP - 473
BT - American Solar Energy Society - Solar 2007
Y2 - 8 July 2007 through 12 July 2007
ER -