Progetto SIMEA - Automatica - Università degli Studi di Padova

SIMEA Stato dell’arte energetica degli edifici
1.3.6. I-BEAM
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Educational software and building management tool that integrates indoor air
quality (IAQ), energy efficiency and building economic concepts. I-BEAM provides
comprehensive guidance for managing and assessing IAQ in offices, schools,
universities and various public and institutional facilities.
I-BEAM features easy-to-read and informative text and animations. This
material brings together information from a variety of expert sources in a style that is
crisp, to the point, and action-oriented. I-BEAM also offers estimation modules that
are designed for planning IAQ activities, calculating and recording IAQ-related expenses, estimating their
impact on revenues and productivity, and developing reports. Forms and checklists are provided for building
audit, daily and periodic maintenance, diagnosing and solving problems, and managing for IAQ. Users may
access and print educational text and forms in PDF, or as word processing documents.
1.3.6.1. Expertise Required
None.
1.3.6.2. Users
Approximately 40,000 individuals have requested or downloaded I-BEAM.
1.3.6.3. Audience
Building managers, operators, architects, engineers, school officials
1.3.6.4. Input
Basic building parameters (size, occupancy, costs, finances etc.) required for the building economic
estimations only.
1.3.6.5. Output
For building economic estimations only, software provides cost and revenue time streams, cost-benefit
ratios.
1.3.6.6. Computer Platform
PC with Windows 95 or later.
1.3.6.7. Programming Language
N/A
1.3.6.8. Strengths
Comprehensive, easy to understand, useful tools for managing IAQ in buildings.
1.3.6.9. Weaknesses
Estimates are not definitive, useful primarily for comparison between scenarios.