HEED: Home Energy Efficient Design
Please note that our email address has changed. Our new address is energy.design.tools@ucla.edu.
See how much energy and money you can save by making various design or remodeling changes to your home with this new easy-to-use program. You can draw in the floor plan of your own house, then click and drag your windows to their correct location. You can select from lists of typical wall and roof construction. For advanced users there are more detailed design data input options and output display graphics from the original Solar-5. HEED self installs as a stand alone program on everything from Windows 98 to Windows XP and Macintosh OS X 10.4 or later*. HEED also runs in Spanish (see HEED en Espanol icon).
* HEED also runs on Mac OS X version 10.3.9 with some limitations.
HEED software is available free. Watch the release date because we will be periodically posting new versions with added features. Please leave your email address so we can notify you of major updates.
EPW EnergyPlus Weather Data: You can download climate data for over one thousand locations around the world at the EnergyPlus web site. (See READ-USA for details.)
View HEED Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Download Tutorial PowerPoint Slides(1.3 MB. Microsoft PowerPoint file) (Updated July 2007)
Download ASES 2008 Workshop Presentation: Designing High Performance Sustainable Buildings
(3 MB. PPT file)
Download How to Design High Performance Homes, including How to Change Climate Data
(300 KB. PDF file)
Download Report: HEED Validated using the ASHRAE/BESTTEST Standard
(99 KB. PDF file)
Download HEED User Survey: March 2002
Download HEED User Survey: May 2006
Download Instructions on How to Copy a Project from Another Computer (2 page pdf)
Download Instructions on How to Assemble Multiple Schemes from Different PCs (3 page pdf)
Our full set of Energy Design Tools is available on: http://www.aud.ucla.edu/energy-design-tools