by AF0602 c3 — June 7, 2010—Carrier Corp. has enhanced its Hourly Analysis Program (HAP) software for building energy analysis and system design, launching version 4.5.
With its enhanced features, HAP v4.5 can be used to configure a complete energy analysis for sustainable high performance buildings in a matter of minutes. Carrier Corp., a world leader in heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR), is a unit of United Technologies Corp.
Building on features first introduced in 2008, HAP v4.5 provides the next step in intelligent technology for both Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1 (EAc1) analysis and schematic design energy analysis. New features include automatic determination of ASHRAE 90.1 minimum required equipment efficiencies and software wizards for creating weather data and utility rates. Combined with the existing wizards for building and HVAC equipment data, the new features make a comprehensive energy analysis quick and easy.
In HAP, a “wizard” guides the user through creation of the model, asking a short series of high-level questions and then automatically filling in the details with intelligent defaulting. The wizard features in v4.5 allow users to quickly select weather data; create a building thermal model; configure HVAC equipment scenarios; and input utility rates, including electricity and fuel prices.
An added feature ties all four wizards together to utilize all the data sets in an energy analysis.
For more information, see the Carrier Web site.
