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<DIV><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Mohammed,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Crawley et al (2005) is an excellent source of information regarding simulation tools. They have compared 20 softwares including TRNSYS, ESPr, DOE2, and BLAST. The report can be found at the link below:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif" size=2>Crawley D., Hand J., Kummert M., Griffith B. (July 2005). ‘Contrasting the capabilities of building energy performance simulation programs’, version 1.0, United States Department of Energy, University of Strathclyde and University of Wisconsin. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><A href="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/pdfs/contrasting_the_capabilities_of_building_energy_performance_simulation_programs_v1.0.pdf"><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><STRONG>http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/tools_directory/pdfs/contrasting_the_capabilities_of_building_energy_performance_simulation_programs_v1.0.pdf</STRONG></FONT></A><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><STRONG> </STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Hope this helps.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Regards,</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Ratnalee Patil<BR>Graduate Student<BR>Concordia University<BR>Montreal, Canada<BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:44:45 -0800 (PST)<BR>From: mohammed aliyu <</FONT><A href="mailto:mannir2003@yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:mannir2003@yahoo.com"><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">mannir2003@yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">><BR>Subject: [Bldg-sim] (no subject)<BR>To: </FONT><A href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" ymailto="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org"><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</FONT></A><BR><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Message-ID: <</FONT><A href="mailto:463599.96093.qm@web32503.mail.mud.yahoo.com" ymailto="mailto:463599.96093.qm@web32503.mail.mud.yahoo.com"><FONT face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif">463599.96093.qm@web32503.mail.mud.yahoo.com</FONT></A><FONT face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>Hi everyone,Pls Im starting my research into Net zero energy building and wants to use the building software. I need advice on which the several software (TRYNSIS, ESPr, DOE2, BLAST, ) is simpler to begin with since I dont have anyone here (Malaysia) to give me some guide. what important points are critical and worth noting.<BR><BR><BR> </FONT></P></div><br>
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