<div>Hi Fareed,</div>
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<div>as Edgar suggested it strongly depends on the system you are modelling. Focussing on energy in buildings, for Belgium I would say either TRNSYS or EnergyPlus. That at least for engineering offices and universities or university colleges. For Germany and the Scandinavian countries my guess is that IDA-ICE takes a large share of the market. Researchers in Scotland, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada do use ESP-r as well. </div>
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<div>Focussing on modelling things like hydraulics, these codes are less popular, and I have seen researchers using EES or modellica for those cases.</div>
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<div>Hope all these bits of information will help you out!</div>
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<div>Leen Peeters, Belgium<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Edgar Farrera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farrera@marmonmok.com">farrera@marmonmok.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, February 01, 2010 1:40 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> BldgSim Mailing List<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [Bldg-sim] Mostly commonly used energy analysis software?</span></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"></span></font></p>
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