Carrier Corp. has enhanced its industry leading Hourly Analysis Program (HAP) software for building energy analysis and system design, launching version 4.5. With its enhanced features, HAP v4.5 can be used to configure a complete energy analysis for sustainable high performance buildings in a matter of minutes, the company says.

HAP v4.5 provides the next step in intelligent technology for both Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)® Energy and Atmosphere Credit 1 (EAc1) analysis and schematic design energy analysis. 

New features include:

• automatic determination of ASHRAE 90.1 minimum required equipment efficiencies 
• software wizards for creating weather data and utility rates

The wizards guide the user through creation of the model, asking a short series of high-level questions and then automatically filling in the details with intelligent defaulting. An added feature ties the wizards together to utilize all the data sets in an energy analysis.

For more information:

http://www.commercial.carrier.com/commercial/hvac/general/0,3055,CLI1_DIV12_ETI12893_MID5085,00.html