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IDA ESBO

Early Stage Building Optimization

IDA ESBO is a simulation tool for building design optimization based on EQUA’s building performance software IDA Indoor Climate and Energy.

IDA ESBO allows you to experiment with different building designs and equipment in order to predict the consequences on energy use and comfort. Room-level and central HVAC systems may be evaluated, as well as glazing, shading and construction materials - all without the need of creating a complete geometric model of the building.

IDA ESBO

Key benefits

Energy and comfort studies

Study one room or a whole building

Compare different heating, cooling and ventilation systems

Compare different glazing, shading and construction materials

Easy to use

Video

Dynamic building simulation for beginners

Watch this webinar recording and learn about the potentional with IDA ESBO, and how you as a simulation beginner or non-expert can benefit from dynamic building performance software.

Types of studies with IDA ESBO

  • Energy | Whole year energy use.

  • Cooling | Cooling design (or summer overheating) according to the ASHRAE heat balance method.

  • Heating | Heating design (winter heat load) according to the ASHRAE heat balance method.

  • Daylight | Detailed ray tracing daylight calculation with Radiance™.

  • Glazing properties  | Glazing and shading properties according to EN ISO 52022-3, EN 410 and ISO 15099.

Extensions

Extension

Control Strategies

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Overheating Protection

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Product brochure

Are you interested in getting your own branded ESBO?

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ESBO is a branded content tool, currently available in the below versions.

For manufactures

Get your own branded ESBO

Show the real benefits of your products

Providing trustworthy evidence on the benefits of your products can be tricky. Numbers quoted in traditional sales material are often surrounded by drastic assumptions and simplifications.

Customers may doubt that the dynamic reality of their building will match these numbers — and they may in fact be right.

Showing how your product would actually perform in your customer’s building is much more effective and opens up completely new sales and marketing opportunities.

This is where building performance simulation comes in tasks.

A free tool for your customers

ESBO (Early Stage Building Optimization) is a new drag-and-drop tool for importing complex building products into a simulation model.

It has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface while still using the sophisticated simulation engine found in IDA ICE. This allows you to demonstrate your products in a completely new way – making it the perfect tool for both your customers and your sales force.

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Comparison

ESBO Full vs. ESBO Light

Below are the main benefits with the full ESBO compared to ESBO Light.

More complex geometry

Models can be adapted to suit the geometry of a real project. Several rooms may be studied simultaneously and rooms may have any geometry, also (by CAD import) including complex roof shapes and non-vertical walls. A 3D view of all studied rooms together is available and properties can efficiently be assigned directly in this 3D view.

Whole-building energy

Full ESBO has a number of features that are needed for a whole-building study, such as thermal bridges, shading elements around the building and on facades, ground heat losses, losses in pipe and duct systems etc.

Case comparing reports

Multiple cases can be simulated with a single click and results are compared side by side in the same report.

Renewable energy

Solar thermal, photovoltaic panels, wind mills and borehole heat exchangers are available.

IDA ICE outputs

The full range of IDA ICE outputs are available, including PPD-index, CO2, humidity and daylight. More user-controllable settings are available.

Features

Full

Light

Single room

Multiple rooms
Rectangular zone geometry
Arbitrary zone geometry
Zone multiplier
Whole-year simulation
Daylight calculation with Radiance™ (limited, full features in Daylight extension)
Glazing calculation EN ISO 52022-3, EN 410 and ISO 15099
Batch simulations
Case comparing reports
Surrounding shading objects
Balconies and other fixed shades on the facade
3D building visualization
Input thermal bridges
Input ground heat transfer
Input system losses
Borehole models
Solar thermal collectors
PV collectors
Wind generator
Window opening
Painting 3d model with constructions, surface properties and window types
Support via forum
Available as installation
Available as cloud service

Extensions

Full

Light

BIM Import
Daylight
VDI 2078
Extension can be purchased separately
Support

Maintenance agreement

Software maintenance

The maintenance agreement includes both minor and major software upgrades, which means that you will always have the latest version.

Technical support

We explain how the software works and how to best operate it. We also assist if technical bugs or other issues are discovered in the software

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User forum

As a maintenance agreement user, you also get access to our user forum, a knowledge database where the support team and other users interact and share information.

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