@article {3443, title = {Transforming BIM to BEM: Generation of Building Geometry for the NASA Ames Sustainability Base BIM}, year = {2013}, month = {01/2013}, author = {James O{\textquoteright}Donnell and Tobias Maile and Cody Rose and Natasa Mrazovic and Elmer Morrissey and Cynthia Regnier and Kristen Parrish and Vladimir Bazjanac} } @conference {2631, title = {An Assessment of the use of Building Energy Performance Simulation in Early Design}, booktitle = {IBPSA Building Simulation 2011}, year = {2011}, month = {11/2011}, address = {Sydney, Australia}, author = {Vladimir Bazjanac and Tobias Maile and Cody Rose and James O{\textquoteright}Donnell and Natasa Mrazovic and Elmer Morrissey and Welle, Benjamin} } @conference {2635, title = {Data Enviroments and Processing in Sem-Automated Simulation with EnergyPlus}, booktitle = {CIB W078-W102}, year = {2011}, address = {Sophia Antipolis, France}, author = {Vladimir Bazjanac and Tobias Maile and James O{\textquoteright}Donnell and Cody Rose and Natasa Mrazovic} } @conference {2630, title = {SimModel: A domain data model for whole building energy simulation}, booktitle = {IBPSA Building Simulation 2011}, year = {2011}, month = {10/2011}, abstract = {

Many inadequacies exist within industry-standard data models as used by present-day whole-building energy simulation software. Tools such as EnergyPlus and DOE-2 use custom schema definitions (IDD and BDL respectively) as opposed to standardized schema definitions (defined in XSD, EXPRESS, etc.). Non-standard data modes lead to a requirement for application developers to develop bespoke interfaces. Such tools have proven to be error prone in their implementation {\textendash} typically resulting in information loss.

This paper presents a Simulation Domain Model (SimModel) - a new interoperable XML-based data model for the building simulation domain. SimModel provides a consistent data model across all aspects of the building simulation process, thus preventing information loss. The model accounts for new simulation tool architectures, existing and future systems, components and features. In addition, it is a multi-representation model that enables integrated geometric and MEP simulation configuration data. The SimModel objects ontology moves away from tool-specific, non-standard nomenclature by implementing an industry-validated terminology aligned with Industry Foundation Classes (IFC).

The first implementation of SimModel supports translations from IDD, Open Studio IDD, gbXML and IFC. In addition, the EnergyPlus Graphic User Interface (GUI) employs SimModel as its internal data model. Ultimately, SimModel will form the basis for a new IFC Model View Definition (MVD) that will enable data exchange from HVAC Design applications to Energy Analysis applications. Extensions to SimModel could easily support other data formats and simulations (e.g. Radiance, COMFEN, etc.).

}, author = {James O{\textquoteright}Donnell and Richard See and Cody Rose and Tobias Maile and Vladimir Bazjanac and Philip Haves} }