Position of Software Analysis in Energy Auditing in Buildings

An exponentially increasing energy consumption in recent years, on one hand, is a reflection of athriving economy in which the wheels of industries circulate and various manufactured industrialproducts are distributed globally. While on the other hand it can be an indication of a drastic escalationin energy consumption owing to low national energy prices which does not oblige industries or otherenergy consumers in general to follow efficient energy consumption patterns. The lack of suchapproach toward consumption has resulted in enacting a series of rules with the aim of economizingconsumption. An efficient tool in planning economical consumption methods is auditing softwarewhich renders help to authorities in regulating the consumption. A matter of significance in ourdiscussion is the status of software-based analysis of energy auditing in construction industry and theneed for such software's. Finally, several software packages are introduced which can be used in thisprocess and their advantages and disadvantages also are explained.