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size=2>Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>My apologies for any cross postings.
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>The National Research Council Canada and
the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have released version 2.0 of
the advanced daylighting analysis tool DAYSIM. DAYSIM is a free add-on
to <SPAN class=627134019-29102003>LBNL's</SPAN> RADIANCE software. DAYSIM
predicts the annual daylight availability and electric lighting use in a
building. The software can be downloaded from </FONT><A
href="http://www.daysim.com/"><FONT size=2>www.daysim.com</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><FONT
size=2>The following new features have been added since version
1.3:<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">now runs under Windows 2000 and
Linux/Unix operating systems </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">features the manual lighting and blind
control model LIGHTSWITCH, that allows to predict the annual electric
lighting use for various lighting control strategies </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">EnergyPlus weather data can be
directly imported into RADIANCE </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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size=2><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">based on RADIANCE 3.5</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN>
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size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">new JAVA graphical
user interface with an extensive help file system </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
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size=2><SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">tutorial features a
step-by-step instruction how to import AutoCAD files into DAYSIM</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Your
comments/suggestions are appreciated. Greetings from
Ottawa,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT size=2>Christoph <SPAN
class=627134019-29102003>Reinhart</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><FONT
size=2>PS: Thanks a lot to the following individuals for taking the time to
beta-test DAYSIM 2.0. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Anca
Galasiu, NRC, Canada<o:p></o:p></SPAN> </FONT>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Philip
Greenup, ARUP, Australia<o:p></o:p></SPAN> </FONT>
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size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Milan
Janak, </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Slovak Technical University,
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'">Slovakia<o:p></o:p></SPAN>
</FONT>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS'"><FONT
size=2>Laurens Zonneveldt, TNO, The
Netherlands<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></LI></UL><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=-2>Christoph "Tito" Reinhart,
Ph.D.
tel: (613) 993-9703</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>Research
Officer
fax: (613) 954-3733</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>Institute
for Research in Construction e-mail:
christoph.reinhart@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=-2>National Research Council
Canada 1200 Montreal Road M-24,
Ottawa</FONT></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>Ontario K1A 0R6
Canada</FONT></FONT>
<P><U><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>Daylighting Analysis
Software:</FONT></FONT></U> <BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>The Lightswitch
Wizard (initial design) <U><FONT color=#000000><A
href="http://www.buildwiz.com/lightswitch/index.cfm">www.buildwiz.com</A></FONT></U></FONT></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-2>DAYSIM (expert
software)
<U><FONT color=#000000><A
href="outbind://49/www.daysim.com">www.daysim.com</A></FONT></U></FONT></FONT><U><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=-2><A
href="outbind://49/www.daysim.com"></A></FONT></FONT></FONT></U>
<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=-2>IEA Task
31
<A
href="http://www.iea-shc.org/task31/">http://www.iea-shc.org/task31/</A></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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