GARD provides software that allows customers to analyze proposed system designs for energy efficiency and cost performance. These software tools include standalone application development for a variety of software environments as well as extensions to public domain simulation tools.<\/p>\n
GARD’s historical and current focus on this area is readily evidenced by our experience in the building energy analysis field. From an historical perspective, GARD has been a pioneer in the development of building energy analysis software beginning with an active role in the creation of the first public domain hour-by-hour programs in the late 1960’s. GARD Analytics personnel have remained actively involved in the development of subsequent generations of these applications over the past thirty-five years, and are currently involved in the testing and support of the next generation of energy analysis programs called EnergyPlus. This continuity, stretching over almost four decades, brings an immense depth of understanding to research and development issues relating to energy analysis and building simulation software.<\/p>\n
Projects include the following:<\/p>\n
EnergyPlus Testing, Development, Validation, Training and Support<\/a><\/p>\n Develop Life-Cycle Costing Feature for EnergyPlus<\/a><\/p>\n Development of Direct-Fired Absorption Chiller Model for EnergyPlus<\/a><\/p>\n Development of Desiccant Dehumidifier Model for EnergyPlus<\/a><\/p>\n Development and Integration of Thermal Energy Storage Model into EnergyPlus<\/a><\/p>\n