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Chillers should be in the HVAC Category, NOT Plumbing

There aren't any .... it should be obvious/self-explanatory
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Needs review

Overall simplification of the steps required to link a database to a datagroup catalog such as piping systems

The process to create a link between an Access database and some datagroup info is painfull at least. Manually editing xml files, making sure everything matches between properties, database columns names, units, making sure we are not using some t...
about 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 2 Future consideration

Option to Add Company Logo to Results

On Hevacomp, you were able to add your company logo to results such as Heat Loss and Heat Gain. It would be good if the same can be done for open buildings energy simulator results.
11 months ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Part O Overheating Assessment Tool

Addressing overheating due to solar gain is increasingly a big problem for building designers, and is now also a statutory requirement. OBD/OBES/Hevacomp is well placed to provide an analytical design tool that provides quick feedback to the facad...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Planned

A question for Open Building Designer

Hi.. With ref to software research on Bentley OpenBuildings Designer, we would like to check on these prior to use in Manchester Metropolitan university one of our departments- When was software last updated Is software still on active development...
over 1 year ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Already exists

Urban Heat Island Effect Modeling

Analysing the effects of overheating is becoming an integral part of the design of buildings, driven by ongoing changes to the building regulations. These interactive tools for analytical modeling, exemplified by OBD's integration with Energy Simu...
about 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 0 Needs review

Quick Thermal Analysis tools

It would be great to some quick checking tools like THERM, BL WINDOW, UcanPSI This would allow front line designers quickly evaluate their designs without having to throw things over the wall to another app or specialist consultant and waiting for...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration

Room Acoustics Modeling

Would it be possible to calculate the room acoustic properties in OBES? Since OBES is already tracking the thermal properties of the enclosing wall, ceiling and floor elements, it should be relatively straightforward to also include the acoustic p...
over 2 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Buildings Services 1 Needs review

Open Cities Planner (OCP): Bi directional Support

Take Schematic and or existing models data from OCP, and bring it into a design session inside OBD Create a workflow to display OBD data and geometry inside OCP
over 4 years ago in OpenBuildings Designer / Architectural / Buildings Services 1 Future consideration