BLUEPRINTGREENDESIGN

BLUEPRINT GREEN DESIGN is an interactive, free, accessible and low-size app for anyone who wants to create and visualize simple building plans in 2D, calculate and visualize their heat loss, and get energy analysis for each component to make informed decisions to improve energy efficiency.

 

The “Home” screen allows users to design layouts by defining the project name, location, and dimensions,as well as defining rooms, walls, windows, doors, floors, and roofs. The “Detail” screen allows users toeither directly input component U-values (thermal transmittance) or enter material layers for each building component. The app uses web-scraping to fetch thermal conductivity values for component heat loss calculations. After the heat loss calculations, the “Calculate” screen breaks down the building’s heat loss, detects the least efficient components, and gives prioritized retrofit suggestions.

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A trial to compile Enviro-I manual heat loss calculations with an app!