Paul<br>You might try COMFEN, an early design tool for facades and daylighting that runs EnergyPlus and provides access to WINDOW, Radiance and a variety of glazing and shading data bases. You can do multiple comparative simulations simultaneously to compare heating/cooling/daylighting tradeoffs. An updated version will be out by end of August but you can download V3 at <a href="http://windows.lbl.gov/software/comfen/comfen.html">http://windows.lbl.gov/software/comfen/comfen.html</a><br>
There is a Users Manual and Video Tutorial along with the software download.<br><br>STeve<br><br><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"><p style="margin:0px"><font face="Helvetica">**********************************************************************</font></p>
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</span></font><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Paul Hay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phcjam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">phcjam@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Thanks for the advise Shubhra! I've downloaded the PDF and about to read it now.<br></span></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Shubhra Kothari <<a href="mailto:shubhrakothari@gmail.com" target="_blank">shubhrakothari@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Paul Hay <<a href="mailto:phcjam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">phcjam@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Bldg-Sim <<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, August 17, 2011 1:33 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bldg-sim] Advise on Daylighting program<br></font></div><div><div></div>
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<br><div><div>Look at this paper - </div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibpsa.us/pub/simbuild2010/papers/SB10-DOC-TS03A-02-Gagne.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ibpsa.us/pub/simbuild2010/papers/SB10-DOC-TS03A-02-Gagne.pdf</a><div>
Jamie Gagne gave a demonstration of the program developed at MIT to suggest optimum window size + shading + glazing combination. It was pretty cool. All you need to input is the sketch up block geometry and specify illumination and glare criteria. </div>
<div>I am not sure about the commercial availability of this though. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div>Shubhra<br><br><div>On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Paul Hay <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:phcjam@yahoo.com" target="_blank">phcjam@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Can anyone advise if there is a daylighting program that uses intended illumination levels to generate window options? I remember reading about one long ago from an article by Eliyahu Ne'Eman: I believe from LBL UC(Berk.). I never heard of it since that article in Energy & Buildings.<br>
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