TREAT 3.0 — Charting Accurate Energy Predictions

TREAT 3.0 includes three powerful tools to help you speed up your business process:

The Project Wizard

An innovative new method for quickly setting up a building energy model that is customized to a variety of building shapes and configurations. The Project Wizard automates much of the process of defining spaces, zones, surfaces and appliances, dramatically reducing the time it takes to complete a model. The Project Wizard also reduces training time and increases the quality of models by making sure that users don't forget anything.

Measurement and Inspection Wizards

These new tools dramatically drop the time it takes to enter the non-energy, health and safety observations and measurements that users routinely record and/or report or require as part of a defined business process. Users can open the Wizard, fill in the measured values or observations and then record them with a single click of the Save button.

Preferences

Identify inputs that stay the same from project to project, such as fuel rates, weather, heating and cooling season dates, and many others. These can now be automatically generated for every new project created. TREAT users no longer have to edit generic defaults - they can set up their own custom defaults for a variety of values, including building air-tightness, shielding class, calculation algorithms, etc. Users can also have TREAT generate lighting and a specified set of appliances for every new space that created, depending on the space type.
In addition to the new speed enhancements, TREAT 3.0 also includes:

Enhanced Model Inspector The Model Inspector now includes a graphical view of the energy use for each calculated model, as well as parameter checking and tips on improving each model.

Enhanced Domestic Hot Water Screen Now, all sorts of water heaters can be modeled, from standard gas heaters and heat pump water heaters, to boiler-driven and tankless instant heaters. And adjustments to DHW load are much easier, allowing faster true up.

Two-Fuel Fixed Allocation Option Set the percentage of heat that is to be provided by each fuel.

Fuel Bill to Model Comparison with Incomplete Billing Data Visually compare modeled results with less than a full years billing data. This allows true-ups with minimal billing data available.

With these speed and technical enhancements, TREAT remains the premier tool for analyzing retrofit options, and now challenges other existing modeling tools for the new construction market.

Previous features from TREAT 2.6 release:

• Transportable data files allow users to easily exchange TREAT project files. Each file is known as a TPG file (TREAT Project Group) and has a .TPG extension.
• A Lifestyle Savings calculator computes the savings that can be achieved with little or no cost by occupants changing their behavior, for example replacing furnace filters regularly.
• A new Weatherization Report shows the recommended financial investment for the building.
• Heating and Cooling Seasons can be modeled on the Weather/Defaults screen. Billing and model heating energy usage during the months that are not part of a heating season is equal to zero, even if there is non-zero heating load during these months. The same rule applies to cooling. This allows users to model the common behavior of occupants who, for example, do not turn heating on until October, and who turn heating off on May 1.
• Natural Ventilation can be modeled for free cooling during non-heating months, on the Spaces Advanced screen. This feature allows modeling the effect of opening the windows when the outdoor temperature is below 68F and the space temperature is above 70F.
• Interacted Savings and Savings-to-Improvement Ratio (SIR) are shown for each improvement. The savings and SIR are shown individually for each improvement as implemented with the others. The improvements are sorted within the package from highest to lowest SIR.
• Library upgrades to the Surfaces, Glazing, Frame, Heating, Cooling, Appliance, Lighting, Visual Inspection, Measurements and Daily Weather Libraries provide more choices for creating building models. New items include glass block windows, storm windows, Energy Star dishwashers, Energy Star heat pumps, and more surfaces with high-density foam insulation.
• Multiple improvements to the calculation algorithms and the graphical user interface.