Climate change impacts on buildings performance

[ZapBran]

I'd imagine you'd want to be looking at an EPW file convertor...

http://www.ecotect.com/node/702

http://squ1.org/wiki/Converting_EnergyPlus_Weather_Data

[tjk205]

I use the CCweatherGen for my work to create future EPW files as distributed by Southampton University. I has the capability to run all three timeslices (2020, 2050, 2080's) and all four 4 SRES scenarios considered by the UK climate impacts programme. Unfortunately this version is UK only.

With the UK version it is possible to hack the files with the climate data in and replace the values with more up to date ones. I assume this is possible with the world version.

Alternatively if you fancy coding something yourself the the CCweatherGen program is based on the morphing procedure described in this paper.
Building Serv. Eng. Res. Technol. 26,1 (2005) pp. 49-61

[ZapBran]

ooohhhhh NICE!!!!

[David]

Hi Julie

Just a wee correction - there's no connection between IES and ESP-r.

There's used to be when IES was in the early days. We had a ESP running on Unix which was of course related to ESP-r.
The VE has been using Apache for it's thermal engine for well over 10 years.