BSim - Building Simulations
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Posting Date | 12 June 2009
Type of tool | Simulation Tool
Countries where the tool has been developed | Denmark
Country where the tool is in use | International Organizations
Geographic Coverage | International
Theme | General, Environmental issues related to buildings, On-site renewable energy sources, Controls, energy management systems, Thermal comfort, indoor air quality, acoustics, Lighting, Heating, domestic hot water, Air conditioning, cooling, ventilation, air infiltration, Calculation, simulation
Target Group | Building professionals
Conditions of availability | Sale
Price | 2650
Validation/testing information | The simulation core was part of the IEA task 12 / Annex 21 enpirical validation exercice in 1994 under the name tsbi3.
Expertise required | Knowledge about building physics and thermal behaviour of buildings.
Number of users | 500
Input of the tool | Building and system characteristics
Output of the tool | Simulated values of numerous (depends on the size and conplexity of the building model) parametres on hourly basis, ranging from energy flows to node temperatures and humidity inside constructions. All result parametres can be represented in tables and as curves (hour values or sum-curves).
Strengths | "- Syncronous moisture and energy transport inside constructions
- Intuitive grapgic user interface
- User defined database
- Extensive user's guide activated by pressing F1
- User support
- On-going development
- Integrated simulation package"
Weaknesses | - Simple representation of most systems
- Limited import facilities for CAD drawings"
Computer platform | Windows
Publisher | Danish Building Research Institute Aalborg University
Publisher URL | http://www.sbi.dk
Source of funding | National
Funding description | Developed since 1970'es with funding from many different national and international sources. Some minor parts of the developments have been funded by commercial sources.
Tool Languages | Danish , English
BSim is an integrated PC tool for analysing buildings and installations. BSim includes a collection of advanced tools for simulating and calculating e.g. thermal indoor climate, energy consumption, daylight conditions, synchronous simulation of moisture and energy transport in constructions and spaces, calculation of natural ventilation and electrical yield from building integrated photovoltaic systems.
Tool website URL(s) | http://www.bsim.dk
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