In the US building consume 48% of all the energy.
The Sustain project is a programming sandbox that allows the user to interact with data relevant to building simulation. It provides easy methods to import building data and access site information (terrain, weather, sun position, etc.) It can execute a variety of simulators, gather the results, and visualize the data. This can be used:
- Architects can get feedback on how energy efficiency their buildings are in the early design stage (conceptual and schematic)
- Educators can demonstrate sustainable design concepts and the impact of certain variations in design
- Researcher can experiment with new simulation algorithms or the parallelization and optimization of existing algorithms
