Abstract: . . .  program is being developed by Murray Milne at UCLA. It covers a wide variety of building types and climates. Its graphic output is uniquely descriptive and evocative. Its use is covered in the Vital Signs Resource Package, "Measurement and Display of Thermal Performance of Buildings." UISUN Based on Balcomb’s SLR method, this package is able to calculate passive solar heating contributions for a wide variety of systems in a wide variety of North American climates. It is particularly user-friendly . . .
. . .  presents three different thermal mass models—a uniform mass, a two-node mass, and a multi-node mass—which are compared to a measured case study of a solar gain space. V I T A L S I G N S C U R R I C U L U M M A T E R I A L S P R O J E C T 4 THERMAL MASS BIBLIOGRAPHY SOFTWARE CALPAS-3 A comprehensive thermal simulation program based on the thermal network analogy. This promising package has an awkward, card-filelike interface. A graphic interface successor, CALPAS-4, was promised, but never delivered. . . .
. . .  climates. Its graphic output is uniquely descriptive and evocative. Its use is covered in the Vital Signs Resource Package, "Measurement and Display of Thermal Performance of Buildings." UISUN Based on Balcomb’s SLR method, this package is able to calculate passive solar heating contributions for a wide variety of systems in a wide variety of North American climates. It is particularly user-friendly and is helpful as a design tool in the schematic design phase. A complete user's manual is given as Appendix . . .
. . .  graphic output is uniquely descriptive and evocative. Its use is covered in the Vital Signs Resource Package, "Measurement and Display of Thermal Performance of Buildings." UISUN Based on Balcomb’s SLR method, this package is able to calculate passive solar heating contributions for a wide variety of systems in a wide variety of North American climates. It is particularly user-friendly and is helpful as a design tool in the schematic design phase. A complete user's manual is given as Appendix 2. Wattsun . . .
. . .  manual is given as Appendix 2. Wattsun 5.x This program is basically a residential construction code compliance software package for the Pacific Northwest. However, it is extremely user-friendly and has the capability of calculating heat loss (U·A) and comparing the performance of various residential constructions.  . . .
. . .  centered on three current and distinct models for analysis of thermal performance. This year’s class is supported by a grant from the Vital Signs project. Our Vital Signs assignment is to study the effect of thermal mass on the performance of existing energy-conserving, active/passive solar buildings and to initiate “work-ups” of these buildings. The grant moneys have supported preliminary work in scouting of and information gathering for the candidate buildings for class study. Study team field trips . . .
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