![]() ![]() Weather Tool: passive strategies analysisĬlimate Consultant: passive strategies analysisĭocumentation available on the analysis function of the program can be found in the program’s Help section. Analyses are optimum orientation analysis and passive strategies analysis through a psychrometric chart. For visualization, basically it just displays the information contained in a weather file like temperature, humidity, solar radiation, etc. Weather Tool has 2 functions – visualization and analysis. The results might be different due to different averaging methods.Įven though the weather file is generally derived from a reliable source since the data obtained from a weather station cross-checking can make sure the weather data you have is valid and can really assist your design decision-making. The first one is to use Weather Tool and the second method is to use EnergyPlus. There are 2 methods in general to convert EnergyPlus weather file (.EPW) to a. epw format and you can use Weather Tool to convert it. This can be downloaded from Ecotect website (.wea format) or from EnergyPlus website which would be in a. Weather Tool is quite easy to use, all you need is a weather file that contains average data of the weather for a specific location for several years. Some tools that you can check out are Weather Tool, Climate Consultant, and Meteonorm. Some software can help us to link those tables to our design thinking process by using nice and informative graphics. Ecotect website also has Weather Tool and Ecotect tutorials available, so for this blog, I wanted to focus more on the application side – like how you’d look at the graphs and use it to inform your design process.Ĭlimate analysis is an important process for green design and usually we just go online and extract some information out of a bunch of tables and texts. I’ll try to edit it later and add more graphics so it’s easier to follow. Although it is not meant to be a full tutorial set but I hope it can be useful for anyone who wants to run some climate analysis before conducting the design. ![]() This is an excerpt from a Weather Tool training note I created a year ago. ![]()
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