This post won’t be for everyone, but if you’re into using Python there’s a lot you can do to make EnergyPlus input files easier understand and analyse. I’m slowly putting together a few useful functions to help with analysing models I and others have built, and one of the basic building blocks is a way [...]
Since I know a lot of people who come here do so for Excel-related posts, I thought it would be useful to rewrite last week’s Pareto frontiers function in VBA for Excel. Remember that 2D Pareto frontiers are the set of options which can’t be bettered on one metric without making things worse on the [...]
We all want to find the best results for the lowest cost, but sometimes it’s not as simple as that. Imagine you have a large number of choices from which you are trying to find the best option. For example, let’s say you have a range of energy efficiency refurbishment packages available and you want [...]
Mel Starrs tweeted a week or so ago about using GIS software to do mapping and energy analysis. I wanted to do the something similar but for sub-metered zones in a multi-tenanted office building. Rather than go down the route of learning a new package, I remembered a chapter on creating choropleth maps in Nathan [...]
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