I heard once a senior researcher criticize a doctoral student for having chosen a particular software tool to do his data analysis. I was sitting on an International Energy Agency task meeting and the student (let’s call him Sam) was showing results from his analysis. Someone from the audience asked him what tool he had […]
The U.S. Department of Energy maintains on their website a fairly comprehensive directory of building energy software tools. From their website: “The energy tools listed in this directory include databases, spreadsheets, component and systems analyses, and whole-building energy performance simulation programs. A short description is provided for each tool along with other information including expertise […]
Our laboratory hosted this morning a seminar given by Sylvia Hubalek, of the Environmental Ergonomics department of the Center for Organisational and Occupational Sciences in Zurich, Switzerland. She reported on work done by herself monitoring illuminance levels at the eye and tracking eye movements as a function of type of activity and light environment. The […]
Welcome to the Computing & Smart Buildings blog. In this column I will provide insights on a regular basis on how computers in all their forms are used to make the home or the office a more comfortable place to live, or how they are used in the field of building research.