DWC - Design With Climate
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Climate responsive design contributes to efficient building design, can greatly improve comfort and quality of life of its inhabitants, increases sustainability and offers a huge potential for energy savings.

Design With Climate is a qualitative design assistant tool. It evaluates 12 winter and 7 summer design strategies as a function of hourly climatic data of a given station at a clic.

I wrote 'Design With Climate' during a long and cold winter on board of a sailboat in the Thule region in northern Greenland.

Design With Climate is licenced free of charge. So you are free to use and share it with others provided that copies are not made or distributed for commercial advantage.

Output from Design With Climate may be published provided that acknowledgement is made to Design with Climate and the copyright holder.

Please feel free to feed back. Suggestions are welcome.
Contact >> http://igloo.sailworks.net

Have fun :-)
Peter Gallinelli, June 2016


Installation
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Design With Climate is written in Java and so should work on any computer. Just extract the zip file to a suitable location and double-clic the design_with_climate*.jar file to make it start. If nothing happens, you may have to type 'java -jar design_with_climate*.jar' from a console. If it still does not start, check that you have the Java Virtual Machine installed. It can be obtained at no cost from the Java (Oracle) website.


Definitions
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see help.htm


Technical
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see help.htm


Version History
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Version beta 0.1
- created July 2016 : pg

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