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Energy Analysis Software

Greenspace Live, an outgrowth of the Greenspace initiative, a UK  project, is a web-based portal for energy reduction in the built  environment. The aim of Greenspace Live help and encourage owners,  occupiers, managers and designers of buildings to reduce the energy  usage through improvements to the fabric and equipment within via a  range of simple dynamic tools for analysing and reviewing the carbon  footprint of one building or a portfolio of hundreds. Interesting  looking suite of tools. LiveEnergy Modeller is an energy analysis  plugin for Google SketchUp. LiveEnergy EPC is a building energy  analysis software tool validated and approved by UK CLG (Communities and Local Government). LiveEnergy EPC is gbXML based so that easy-to- use 3D tools such as Google SketchUp with the LiveEnergy Modeller  plugin, Revit, ArchiCAD and Microstation can all be used as front-end  modelling systems. This is a relatively new initiative, with some training videos and an unpopulated FAQ page (Fall 2009). Unclear whether it supports weather files for Canada.