HEED: Home Energy Efficient Design
ANNOUNCING a 4-hour hands-on workshops introducing the newest versions of HEED and ClimateConsultant that will be offered at various locations throughout California. For the schedule contact pmlaroche@csupomona.edu
See how much energy and money and carbon you can save by making various design or remodeling changes to your home with this free new easy-to-use program. You can draw in the floor plan of your own house, then click and drag your windows to their correct location. You can select from lists of typical wall and roof construction. For advanced users there are more detailed design data input options and output display graphics from the original Solar-5. HEED self installs as a stand-alone program on everything from Windows 98 or later and Macintosh OS X 10.4 or later. HEED also runs in Spanish (see HEED en Espanol icon).
This latest Build 17 version of HEED 4 contains many new features including the option to click and drag Solar Hot Water Collectors and Solar PV Collectors onto your building, plus the option of adding new roof shapes and Cool Roofs. A new Shadows and Sunlight screen shows a Sun’s Eye View of your building in its surroundings of trees and neighbors. HEED incorporates the current California Energy Code and includes the latest utility rates. For the first time HEED lets you check Code Compliance by automatically exporting your building to EnergyPro, and explains everything in a customized Tutorial. On the Energy Cost screen your home’s Zero Net Energy Rating and Zero Net Carbon Rating is calculated for each design as a percentage of the reference Code Compliant building. Context specific Help and an email Hot Line which usually responds within 24 hours will answer all your questions. If you have any questions or problems please let us know at energy.design.tools@ucla.edu.
If you already have HEED running, you can install this new version in the same folder, and all your data will be preserved. Just hit Recalculate Old Projects to update each scheme.
HEED is free.
EPW EnergyPlus Weather Data: You can download climate data for thousands of locations around the world at the EnergyPlus web site. (See READ-EPW (Automatic) or READ-EPW (Manually) for details.)
View HEED Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Download HEED Workshop Slides 2010
(6 MB. PDF file)
Download Report: HEED Validated Against ASHRAE BESTEST Standard 140.pdf
(1.4 MB. PDF file)
Download Report: HEED Validated Using HERS BESTEST, Tier 1 and 2: 2008
(84 KB. PDF file)
Download HEED User Survey: March 2002
Download HEED User Survey: May 2006
Download Instructions on Copying Schemes or Projects to Another Computer
Download Instructions on How to Assemble Multiple Schemes from Different PCs (3 page pdf)
Our full set of Energy Design Tools and Technical Bibliography is available on: http://www.energy-design-tools.aud.ucla.edu