DesignBuilder vs IES VE vs IDA ICE
Dear Unmet community,
I am newbie here. In the company where I am working, we are looking for a new software that best fits our purposes. We are consulting company, and aiming to do now the simulations inhouse. After a lot of research, I found several articles related to different advantages and disadvantges, Pros and Cos of these 3 softwares. Our main aim is to simulate the energy for LEED (Ashrae 90.1) and BREEAM.
I would appreciate if some experience users give more highlights of following critical points for each software:
- The level of accuracy and detail
- Usability and information management
- Data exchange capacity
- Database support
- Interoperability with building modeling
- Integration of building design process
- Speed and cost
- Ease of use
- Data exchange between BIM/CAD models and simulation programs
- time-consuming modeling referring to the process of modeling building geometry, zones, HVAC systems, schedules
- simulation guidance ability indicating tool’s ability to guide the designer for proper solutions
- sharing experience between modelers
- Performance gap between predicted building performance during design stage and actual energy performance of the building during life cycle in order to achieve performance goals
- Improving the modeling capabilities of the performance simulation tools to accurately represent the actual performance of the model
- Supporting a quantitative evaluation of energy use and CO2 emissions
signs like +++ ++ + or --- -- - for each software would be enough for me to make these signs/points in a matrix table and decide which one we will choose.
Thank you in advance for your feedback. I am looking forward for the answers I will receive :)
Best regards
Josef
