Patent ID: 9501805
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: F24F,G05B,G05F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. A computerized method for optimizing a building design, comprising: identifying, using at least one application coupled to at least one computer, at least one geographic location; identifying, using the at least one application, at least one human comfort zone; for weather ordinates associated with the at least one geographic location, performing processing associated with calculating, using the at least one application, an indication of the amount of energy required to bring an outside air point to the boundary of the defined comfort zone for each energy load type that can be used to reach the comfort zone; for each energy load type, performing processing associated with summing, using the at least one application, the indication for at least one time period and dividing the total by a coefficient of performance to give an energy calculation; performing processing associated with summing, using the at least one application, all the energy calculations to produce at least one first index value associated with delivered energy; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, at least one building air change factor for at least one building design; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, the floor area of the building design; performing processing associated with multiplying, using the at least one application, the first index value by the air change factor and dividing by the floor area to give an intermediate value; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, auxiliary load benchmark data for the at least one building design; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, occupancy hours of the at least one building design; performing processing associated with normalizing, using the at least one application, the auxiliary load benchmark data for the occupancy hours of the at least one building design; performing processing associated with adding, using the at least one application, the normalized auxiliary load benchmark data to the intermediate value to calculate at least one second index value; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, simulated delivered energy data; performing processing associated with determining, using the at least one application, whether to adjust the at least one building design based on the building simulated delivered energy data and whether the at least one building design meets pre-determined comfort conditions; performing processing associated with comparing, using the at least one application, the comfort checked building simulated delivered energy data with the at least one second index value, broken down into energy load types, to determine which load elements of the design are an improvement or otherwise over the index value benchmark; and performing processing associated with making adjustments, using the at least one application, based on the comparison to optimize the building design.