Software & Tools

Building Energy Standards

Building Energy Standards (BEST) is window based software developed by the National University of Singapore. It is a design tool which can be used by engineers, architects and building services professionals to demonstrate compliance with prescriptive and energy performance standards relating to air-conditioned buildings.

BEST is capable of calculating the annual heat gain through the building envelope as characterized by the envelope thermal transfer value (ETTV). It also evaluates the annual heat gain through the roof as the roof thermal transfer value (RTTV). Finally, it allows the user to estimate the following based on a set of prescriptive criteria and user-defined design values:

envelope thermal transfer value (ETTV)
roof thermal transfer value (RTTV)
lighting power allowance
receptacle power density
peak system cooling load
sensible heat removal rate
annual cooling energy consumption
annual total energy consumption

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National University of Singapore
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Singapore 119260

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