SYNOPSIS

EnergyPlus® is the U.S. DOE building energy simulation program for modelling building heating, cooling, lighting, ventilating, and other energy flows.  It builds on the most popular features and capabilities of BLAST and DOE-2 along with new capabilities such as time steps of less than an hour, modular systems and plant integrated with heat balance-based zone, simulation, multizone air flow, thermal comfort, and photovoltaic systems.  The EnergyPlus simulation engine simulates for the dynamic heat transfer through a building envelop.  EnergyPlus can also model and simulate the Heating, Ventilation and Airconditioning (HVAC) systems for indoor comfort (temperature, humidity, wind speeds, mean radiant temperatures) and air quality (ventilation and carbon dioxide concentration).  Besides it can also simulate the effects of Daylighting, Green roofs, Phase Change materials and other latest energy saving features.
“No experience with EnergyPlus is necessary, but more advanced users have the flexibility to export IDF input files and edit these to model a very wide range of HVAC system types.”
EnergyPlus is downloadable free for academics and private personal use from the primary website www.energyplus.gov.


OBJECTIVES

To introduce designers and engineers to the EnergyPlus Building Simulation Software


Outline
1.    Background and History of the EnergyPlus Building Simulation Program
2.    Recognition of EnergyPlus for Energy Modelling and simulation
3.    Capabilities and limitations of EnergyPlus.
4.    What will be taught at the 2-day course (2nd & 3rd February 2015)


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Dr. Ooi Koon Beng obtained his PhD in Low Energy Buildings from University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in October 2012. As an EnergyPlus consultant (since 2006), Ooi was employed as a Research Assistant in an Australian Research Council project at Melbourne University and found the heating and cooling loads and air flow rates for the proposed University of Ballarat Technical Education Center, a 6000-square meter, double-storey educational building in 2008. He has also passed two examinations needed to rate the performance of commercial buildings in Australia: (i) the National Australian Built Environment Rating Scheme (NABERS) examination of the Australian Department of Climate Change and (ii) the Green Star Professional examination of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA).  He also qualified to rate residential buildings in Australia by passing the FirstRate® House Energy Rating software examination.  He was a lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology in Sarawak, Malaysia (2003-2007) and two of Singapore’s new polytechnics (1987-2002).  He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Second Class Honours (Upper Division) from University Malaya, in 1968.  He worked at Malayawata Steel Berhad, the largest steel manufacturer in South East Asia till 1986. He gained Professional Engineer (Ir) registration with the Board of Engineers in 1974.  He has written 8 journals or international conference papers on Energy Efficient buildings since 2007.