Design of powerdoe, a windows : based visually oriented analysis tool

PowerDOE a new, PC-based building energy performance simulation tool, combines the full capabilities of DOE-2.IE with an easy-to-use, flexible WindowSTMgraphical user interface (GUI). PowerDOE is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EM). This paper describes the PowerDOE user interface and the methods used to unify the building description and building analysis process. The simulation engine structure and the way in which the program allows the simulation engine and user interface to interact are also discussed.