Detailed Results Viewer

This 27-minute course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Detailed Results Viewer, a powerful analysis tool for interrogating energy simulation outputs and identifying modelling errors. Through practical demonstrations and real-world examples, participants will master the fundamentals of using the detailed results interface to validate model assumptions, analyse building performance data, and troubleshoot compliance issues.

Key Course Content

This course walks you through the essentials of the Detailed Results Viewer, focusing on how to extract meaningful insights from energy simulation data beyond standard compliance reporting outputs. You'll get hands-on experience navigating the interface and learn practical techniques to interrogate environmental conditions, meter data, HVAC performance, and zone-level results through systematic analysis workflows.

You'll start by understanding the key differences between standard and detailed results viewers, learning when resolution suitable for compliance reports becomes insufficient for thorough analysis. The course teaches you to access and interpret multiple signal types including environmental data (outdoor air temperatures, ground temperatures, solar radiation), facility-level meters (HVAC electricity, equipment loads, lighting consumption), HVAC system outputs (cooling coil energy, heating performance), and zone conditions (air temperature, operative temperature, CO2 levels). You'll discover how to reference the EnergyPlus documentation within Support and Training sections to understand signal definitions and technical parameters.

From there, you'll dive into practical analysis techniques, learning to load and compare multiple signals simultaneously, customise axis ranges for better data visualisation, navigate temporal views (annual, monthly, weekly, daily), and identify performance patterns through correlation analysis. The course demonstrates real troubleshooting scenarios including detecting excessive CO2 levels indicating inadequate ventilation, analysing heat transfer patterns through building fabric, examining equipment load profiles to validate schedule assumptions, and understanding temperature relationships critical for PMV assessments.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be proficient in accessing detailed simulation results, interpreting multiple data signals to validate model inputs, and using systematic analysis workflows to identify optimisation opportunities and substantiate design decisions.

Course Completion

A Certificate of Competency will be awarded upon achieving an 80% pass mark on the final assessment, demonstrating practical understanding of detailed results analysis methodology and data interpretation techniques.

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