Comparison of Simulation Applications Used for Energy Consumption in Green Building

Green Building philosophy is based on providing comfortable living environment for the residents, and simultaneously maintaining low level of negative impacts on the environment, besides applying resource efficient methodologies throughout the life cycle of the building, including efficient usage of energy resources. To achieve these goals, software applications can be used to analyze and simulate energy consumption in Green Building. This paper aims at comparing the most common applications of energy consumption analysis and simulation in terms of their usage in Building Information Modeling (BIM).