Autodesk’s software engineers translated EnergyPlus—more than 600,000 lines of code—to C++, a modern, object-oriented language that is better supported on mass-market hardware and software platforms.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a new version of its EnergyPlus building energy analysis simulation program. EnergyPlus models a building’s heating, cooling, ventilating, ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released OpenStudio, a free energy design plug-in that works seamlessly within the Google SketchUp 3D drawing environment. The plug-in simplifies use of ...

A new web-based tool, Sefaira Systems, combines the U.S. Dept. of Energy's building-energy- modeling simulation program, EnergyPlus, with 3D models to quickly analyze mechanical systems and ...

It then uses the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program to create an energy model of the building, calibrates it, and uses homegrown software to ...

The U.S. Department of Energy, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have released the initial version of the Spawn of EnergyPlus software. The ...