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Commercial Version of CitySim Designer Software for Designing Energy Efficient Eco-Districts Released

Jul 8 2014

The first commercial version of the software CitySim Designer - a tool for the design of energy efficient eco-districts - was released on July 1st, 2014.

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CitySim Designer is used at the masterplan stage to design energy efficient eco-districts by optimising:

  • the placement, shape and orientation of buildings according to solar gains,
  • the physical attributes of the buildings (such as glazing ratio, glazing type and insulation thickness),
  • the occupation schedules of the buildings (residential, commercial and administrative),
  • the solar protections and ventilation.

The software's userfriendly interface offers easy-to-read graphical representations of the key results for entire urban districts.

Initially developed at EPFL and already used by more than 200 scientists around the world, CitySim has become a reference even before its official release. The software is distributed by kaemco LLC, a spin-off company of the EPFL Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory. A simplified free version is available for download on the company's website.

Author: Barbara Smith
Source: Centre de l'énergie

Source: http://actu.epfl.ch/

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