1 General-Purpose Building Energy Simulation Program BEST for the Energy-Saving Standards in Japan (LV-17-C025)

Iwao Hasegawa, Nikken Sekkei
Shuzo Murakami, Ph.D., Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation
Hisaya Ishino, Ph.D., Tokyo Metropolitan University
Fumio Nohara, Nikken Sekkei
Hiroshi Ninomiya, Nikken Sekkei
Reika Iida, Nikken Sekkei
In order to promote energy conservation, the building owner shows the understanding of the energy-saving efforts, the designer is committed to energy-saving design of the building, and government has a role to review the precise energy-saving buildings. BEST is a building energy-saving simulation program that’s been developed since 2005, as a suitable software in order to promote energy conservation. It is a life-cycle design software that can be utilized in the design and operation phase as well as corresponding to the energy conservation law. BEST is used as a simulation software that corresponds to Japan's Energy Conservation Law from 2009.

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