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<pre><span style="font-size: medium;">DesignBuilder is please to announce a 2 day training class in conjunction with the 2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild – Co-organized by ASHRAE and IBPSA-USA in Chicago, Illinois.</span>
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Learn to use DesignBuilder from early-stage through to LEED</span></strong>
Date: Monday-Tuesday, September 24-25, 2018
Time: 8 am to 5 pm
Presenters: Tim McDowell and David Cocking
This training will teach you how to use DesignBuilder to improve productivity, enabling you to model and analyse building performance using EnergyPlus and Radiance much more quickly and efficiently. The workshop will cover the key elements of modeling from early through to detailed project stages and LEED certification. No prior learning or knowledge of DesignBuilder is required for Day 1, which will teach you how to quickly and easily create a model for early-stage analysis then test different early-stage options, develop the model as the design evolves, run heating and cooling load calculations, analyze different solar shading options and run a variety of simulations to quantify energy and comfort performance. Day 2 will introduce detailed HVAC modelling and show you how to quickly and easily generate ASHRAE 90.1 baseline models, update them as required, generate LEED v3 and v4 daylighting credits and the outputs required for LEED submissions, and will also introduce our new online LEED reporting tools. Day 2 requires attendance on Day 1 or prior experience using DesignBuilder. Both workshops will use our latest software, which includes significant new ASHRAE 90.1 Appendix G automation, DAYSIM for LEED v4 daylighting credits, and a new online LEED reporting and submission tool. Free 30-day licenses will be provided, so why not come along and learn how to use these new tools and experience for yourself why so many of our customers say they would recommend DesignBuilder training to a friend or colleague.
Day 1 is designed for those with no DesignBuilder experience and for existing customers who wish to brush up on the latest features. You will learn how to:
• Import models directly from Revit and from other BIM tools via gbXML import, and import floor plans to aid geometry creation.
• Quickly create and edit model geometry.
• Use DesignBuilder’s unique data input and management tools to vastly reduce your data input time and effort.
• Quickly model a variety of solar shading devices.
• Run steady-state heating and dynamic cooling load calculations using EnergyPlus’s accurate ASHRAE heat balance method.
• Run simulations and generate outputs to quantify comfort and energy performance.
Day 2 is focused on our new LEED functionality and is designed for those who have completed day 1 or existing customers who wish to brush up on our latest features. You will learn how to:
• Set up an ASHRAE 90.1 proposed model “from scratch”.
• Gain LEED daylighting credits using new DAYSIM climate-based daylight modeling tools.
• Use DesignBuilder’s new LEED tools to automate the baseline building and HVAC system creation.
• Fine-tune and model non-predominant systems in mixed-use buildings.
• Data-check and analyze outputs for LEED.
• Use the new online LEED reporting and submission tool.
For more information on the training classes please see https://www.ashrae.org/conferences/topical-conferences/2018-building-performance-analysis-conference-and-simbuild.
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Timothy P. McDowell
Executive Vice President
Thermal Energy System Specialists, LLC
22 N Carroll St, Suite 370
Madison, WI 53703
office: 608-274-2577
cell: 608-225-5250</pre>
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