Designing energy-efficient building...

Designing energy-efficient buildings can be difficult and time consuming. A of recent origin software program known as SOLAR-5 is intended to make the proces easier.

evolveed by the University of California at looks Angeles (UCLA), SOLAR-5 requires simply four pieces of reformation: city (for weather patterns), floor area, building symbol and number of stories. This information creates a base "case building" that can used as a benchmark to compare later designs.

Designers can chose as many as 20 building protoplasts For each type, SOLAR-5 exercises a unique set of design guidelines to