My advise to Alex is to start with Energy Plus, as it has the most development put into it and the mose capabilities.<div>Also Open studio has some great information as to where to start.
<a href="http://openstudio.nrel.gov/">http://openstudio.nrel.gov/</a> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:50 PM, mark dewsbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Mark.Dewsbury@utas.edu.au">Mark.Dewsbury@utas.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The paper from referred to by Alex is no 6-7
years old. There has been a lot of movement in building simulation since then. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Has anyone published formally or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">Dr Mark Dewsbury is currently a member of the Nationwide House
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leen peeters [mailto:<a href="mailto:l.f.r.peeters@gmail.com" target="_blank">l.f.r.peeters@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 19 January 2012
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Alex Colta<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bldg-sim] Building
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">There is an intersting document to start with:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">That will probably get you a nice intro. If you are into the maths and
equations, check out Joe Clarke's book on building simulation.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Alex Colta <<a href="mailto:alex.colta@rtsbuildingenvelope.com" target="_blank">alex.colta@rtsbuildingenvelope.com</a>>
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afternoon <br>
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My name is Alex, and I'm new to building simulation world , and i saw you have
many simulation software , <br>
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</span></font><strong><b><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">1.from my understanding the most used ones are eQuest and Trace 700,
is it true ?,</span></font></b></strong><span lang="EN-US"><br>
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what the difference between these two, </span></font></b></strong><span lang="EN-US"><br>
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</span><strong><b><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Calibri">2.i
would like to simulate more building envelope, what software suit more for that
?</span></font></b></strong><span lang="EN-US"><br>
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Thank you very much for your support and help <br>
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with best regard <br>
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<span>Alex</span></span></font><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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