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San Francisco, Calif., January 26, 2002 / --GeoPraxis, Inc.
announced today that the <A href="http://www.nrel.gov/"
target=blank>National Renewable Energy Laboratory</A>, developers of
the award-winning design tool for architects, ENERGY-10, are
planning to base future development on the open source Green
Building XML (gbXML) schema originally developed by GeoPraxis. </P>
<P>A PC-based building energy simulation tool, ENERGY-10 helps
architects and building designers quickly identify the most
cost-effective, energy-saving design alternatives for commercial and
residential buildings up to 10,000 sq. ft. Energy-10 is specifically
designed to help evaluate energy-efficient green building features
in the very early stages of the design process. </P>
<P>Douglas Balcomb, Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy
Lab, said, “After reviewing the various data structure options that
are available for representing both building geometry and
energy-related characteristics, we have decided that gbXML is the
best near-term approach to bridge between several simulation options
and new multi-zone capabilities under development for the Energy-10
building energy analysis package." </P>
<P>The gbXML schema was developed by GeoPraxis to facilitate the
transfer of building information stored in CAD models that is
essential to designing resource efficient buildings. XML, extensible
markup language, is a type of computer language that allows software
programs to share information with little or no human interaction.
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<P>John Kennedy, President of GeoPraxis, said, “NREL’s decision
confirms that gbXML is an ideal method for storing all the data,
including 3D geometry, required to build a highly accurate energy
simulation model. This vote of confidence signals to our commercial
software partners that our simple, market-oriented approach also
satisfies the needs of a recognized leader in the energy simulation
research community.”</P>
<P><B>For Information on Energy-10:</B> <A
href="http://www.nrel.gov/buildings/energy10/"
target=blank>www.nrel.gov/buildings/energy10 </A></P>
<P><B>For Information on gbXML:</B> <A href="http://www.gbXML.org "
target=blank>www.gbXML.org </A></P>
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<P><B>About GeoPraxis </B></P>
<P><A href="http://www.geopraxis.com/" target=blank>GeoPraxis, Inc.
</A>is the innovation leader in the use, development, and
integration of building energy simulation analysis tools and
web-based solutions. GeoPraxis combines expertise in energy
engineering, market research, and software development to meet the
rigorous research, development and information technology needs of
some of the most sophisticated resource companies, research
organizations, and policy-making bodies in the world. GeoPraxis
excels in developing partnerships to commercialize energy efficiency
technology solutions across a variety of industries. </P>
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