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 ECS Tools
Welcome to the MBS Lab Tools page. On this page you will find some tools for Environmental Controls which can be used Online. Click here to view tools for Structures.
DISCLAIMER
The Building Science Department of the University of Southern California
(hereinafter called "The Department") disclaims any and all responsibility
for the application or consequences of any information and software
appearing on or downloaded from all WWW pages posted on
www.usc.edu/dept/architecture/mbs and any of its links
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Click on Downloadable Tools for tools which need to be downloaded and run on your system. Click on Links for links to other sites related to environmental controls.
Send any comments/suggestions to Prof.
Marc Schiler
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Lighting Design Guide |
| Author |
Madhu Gupta |
| Description |
Light.net is a teaching tool on lighting design. It covers fundamentals of lighting and has an interactive advisoras well as a calculator for photometric calculations. |
| Last Updated |
08/99 |
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Solar Masking Calculator |
| Author |
Vagish Narang |
| Description |
Using the Solar Mask this Calulator would help to figure out, how much sun is entering through an opening in a window at a particular time, on a particular location on earth. |
| Last Updated |
01/99 |
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VRSolar |
| Author |
Archit Jain |
| Description |
VRSolar is a teaching tool which generates a VRML world from given block dimensions and allows the user to view the site from any point including the solar position at a given time. |
| Last Updated |
08/97 |
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Sustainable Building Materials Adviser |
| Author |
Ilaria Mazzoleni |
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This site is organised into two sections- the advisor and the theory. The theorysections covers sustainable design practises and the advisor section acts as an aid in chossing sustainable Materials for a building. |
| Last Updated |
08/98 |
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Concepts
in Heat Transfer |
| Author |
Geetika Tandon |
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This interactive web site deals with various modes of heat transfer in buildings. It covers the theory as well as provide java based advisors and calculators for thermal calculations. |
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Ongoing |
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A Web based information tool about Wind |
| Author |
Rungsrithep Wan Svastisinha |
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This website has two main parts - Wind and Air Motion and Case Study of Thailand. The first part covers the theory of wind motion while the second part discusses techniques for wind based design in thailand . |
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05/99 |
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