ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 209-2018 is the product of a half-decade of inertia within the building design and construction community toward leveraging energy modeling a design tool through a project.

Recently, the DOE posted an article for Building Technologies Office’s BEM sub-program, outlining the short payback of energy modeling.

There are a number of different energy modeling tools to choose from

I was recently discussing glazing properties with a mechanical engineer for an energy model of a corporate headquarters we are working on.