This is the final report of IEA EBC Annex 60 Annex 60: New Generation Computational Tools for Building & Community Energy Systems which led to open-source, freely available, documented, validated and verified new generation computational tools.

The main project web page is at http://www.iea-annex60.org.

For a pdf and printed version of this report, visit http://www.iea-annex60.org/final-report.html

Table of contents

• 1. Preface
• 2. Foreword
• 3. Executive Summary
• 4. Introduction
• 5. Activity 1.1: Modelica
• 6. Activity 1.2: Co-simulation and Model Exchange Using the FMI Standard
• 7. Activity 1.3: BPS Code Generation from Building Information Models
• 8. Activity 1.4: Workflow Automation Tools
• 9. Activity 2.1: Design of Building Systems
• 10. Activity 2.2: Design of District Energy Systems
• 11. Activity 2.3: Model use During Operation
• 12. Management and Dissemination
• 13. Conclusions
• 14. Glossary
• 15. References

Copyright

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All property rights, including copyright, are vested in The Regents of the University of California (through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), subject to receipt of any required approvals from U.S. Department of Energy, and RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Operating Agent for EBC Annex 60, on behalf of the Contracting Parties of the International Energy Agency Implementing Agreement for a Programme of Research and Development on Energy in Buildings and Communities.

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