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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have launched an updated version of <a href="http://climaplus.net/">
ClimaPlus</a>, an early-design web-tool developed to facilitate the design of naturally ventilated and hybrid/mixed-mode buildings that are energy-efficient and low-carbon. The tool is being used for teaching in a residential course at MIT, as well as in a
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainable Building Design that we developed in collaboration with MIT Energy Initiative.
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<p class="MsoNormal">ClimaPlus allows you to do analysis for any location in the world where there is a climate data available. You can select a location from over 2,000 locations already available in the web-tool or load your own climate data in EPW file format.
Outdoor and indoor climate analysis charts can be exported to vector images for editing. Please go to
<a href="http://climaplus.net/">climaplus.net</a> to explore more.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact us at <a href="mailto:aarsano@mit.edu">aarsano@mit.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Alpha Yacob Arsano<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959">PhD Candidate<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959">Building Technology Program, MIT<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Christoph Reinhart</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959">Massachusetts Institute of Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#595959">77 Massachusetts Ave, Rm 5-418, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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