The Hydronic Industry Alliance-Commercial (HIA-C) , a committee of the Radiant Professionals Alliance (RPA) , has released version 6.0 of its Building Efficiency System Tool (BEST), an interactive commercial building HVAC system efficiency comparison application.
BEST 6.0 is available for download.
BEST 6.0 also includes the following advancements:
“BEST is an early modeling tool to sort out options for HVAC systems when very little information is known about the building,” says Greg Cunniff, P.E., director of Applied Solutions for Williams Comfort Products. “With the trend to all-electric solutions—including cascading heat pump systems—BEST is able to quickly and easily compare these innovative ideas. Legacy modeling software currently has a difficult time comparing these new ideas.”
Upon its introduction in 2016, BEST solved a long-standing industry issue of being able to accurately compare different styles of HVAC systems, which are all tested to different standards, with various efficiency ratings (EER, IEER, SEER, COP, HSPF), as they are applied in an actual building.
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