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How to hack a SAP 10 calculation

How to hack a SAP 10 calculation

This article provides instructions for "hacking" a Standard Assessment Procedure version 10 (SAP 10) calculation for the energy performance of new and existing dwellings. What is "hacking" a SAP calculation? Here, hacking a SAP calculation means running a SAP calculation and replacing some of the default

How to run a SAP 10 calculation in Excel

How to run a SAP 10 calculation in Excel

This article looks at using an Excel workbook to run SAP 10.2 energy calculations for new and existing dwellings. What is SAP 10? The Standard Assessment Procedure is a method to calculate the energy consumption of UK dwellings. SAP version 10 is published by the Building Research Establishment (see

How to run the Home Energy Model

How to run the Home Energy Model

This article looks at how to run an energy calculation using the latest available version of the Home Energy Model. What is the Home Energy Model? The Home Energy Model (HEM) is a new energy calculation tool currently being developed by the UK Government. It is planned that the HEM

How to run a SAP 10 calculation in Python

How to run a SAP 10 calculation in Python

This post shows how to use the sap10calcs Python package to run a Standard Assessment Procedure 10.2 (SAP10) calculation. What is sap10calcs? sap10calcs is a Python package I have written. It does two things: * It runs SAP 10.2 calculations, by acting as a wrapper for this API service.

How to run a SAP 10 calculation

How to run a SAP 10 calculation

This post uses an API to run a Standard Assessment Procedure 10.2 (SAP 10) calculation. What is an API? An API is an Application Programming Interface. In this case this simply means that there is a software programme hosted on a web server. We can send this programme some

CSV on the Web: Working with EnergyPlus results

CSV on the Web: Working with EnergyPlus results

This post looks at how share EnergyPlus results using the CSV on the Web (CSVW) format. This work was done with Syafiq Saiful as part of the ABCE Open Data Project.

CSV on the Web: Working with units of measure

CSV on the Web: Working with units of measure

This post looks at how to include units (such as metres, kilograms or degrees Celsius) into CSVW metadata files.

CSV on the Web: Creating descriptive metadata files

CSV on the Web: Creating descriptive metadata files

This post looks at creating CSV on the Web (CSVW) metadata files with simple descriptions.

CSV on the Web: An Introduction

CSV on the Web: An Introduction

Are you working with CSV files but are not sure how to best describe the data within them? Would you like to share your CSV data according to the FAIR data principles? CSV on the Web (CSVW) might be the answer.

Parametric analysis with EnergyPlus and Python

Parametric analysis with EnergyPlus and Python

How is possible to run multiple EnergyPlus simulations with different parameters? How can I see the effect of changing a parameter on the simulation results? How can I automate this process? This blog post describes how to do parametric analysis using EnergyPlus and Python.

EnergyPlus simulation and analysis using Python

Do you want to automate your EnergyPlus workflow? Then use Python for both running simulations and analysing the results.

Using Python with IES-VE

This post looks at how to start using Python with the building simulation software IES-VE.

5 ways to edit EnergyPlus input files

I've created an EnergyPlus input file, but how do I edit it? Do I have to edit it manually? Can I using programming to create many variants of my base-case file? This post answers these questions.

How to run EnergyPlus from the command line

This post describes how to run EnergyPlus from the command line, and why this is a good thing to do as part of an Open Research workflow.

10 tips for publishing Open Data

10 tips for publishing Open Data

In this post I give my top 10 tips for publishing Open Data datasets to make them understandable and reuseable for others researchers.