Latin America. The online course of three technical conferences entitled Energy simulation of HVAC systems for buildings in a BIM environment organized by the Chilean and Argentine chapters of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating & Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) in collaboration with CYPE was attended by more than 1,000 technicians specialized in the design and calculation of HVAC systems from all over Latin America.
During the three days of training, attendees learned to perform the energy simulation of HVAC systems for buildings in a BIM workflow using the BIMserver.center platform and the specialized tools that CYPE has in it to analyze a building energetically taking into account its thermal installations and also analyzing the economic impact of the improvements introduced in the project.
For Javier Molina, industrial engineer of the International Support Department of CYPE and responsible for this training, the participating technicians have known the advantages offered by Open BIM technology and have verified how this workflow allows communication between different programs thanks to the use of open IFC files.
Specifically, the attendees have worked with an architectural model created with REVIT on the BIMserver.center platform and have generated the analytical model using the Open BIM Analytical Model program to subsequently use the CYPETHERM EPlus program to make the energy simulation of buildings and their thermal demand. The course Energy simulation of HVAC systems for buildings in BIM environment ended with the execution of the building consumption analysis with CYPETHERM EPlus and the realization of an analysis of the economic performance with CYPETHERM Improvements.
From the chapters of ASHRAE Chile and ASHRAE Argentina agree to emphasize the success of an event in which more than a thousand professionals have benefited from a free and high-level technical course that connects with their objectives of promoting and disseminating good practices and standards of sustainability and energy efficiency in the areas of air conditioning, heating, cooling, ventilation and quality of the interior environment of the construction sector.
