TREAT

TREAT is innovative software designed to provide support for weatherization programs, building performance contractors and energy auditors. It is a comprehensive energy analysis tool that allows weatherization programs to provide new sources of value to their customers, with increased program efficiency.

TREAT's analysis tools allow quick and accurate results. Calculate energy savings for individual improvements or assemble improvements in interactive packages.

Create models quickly and easily with building component libraries
Select Improvements from Libraries
Aggregate improvements into packages
Automatically calculates payback and SIR

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has funded the TREAT software project as part of their Building Performance Market Enhancement Initiative. TREAT is designed to be a significant tool supporting the development of a sustainable market for residential and multifamily building performance services.

TREAT integrates fuel bill analysis, weather data and building modeling information into a database environment. TREAT will allow energy efficiency programs to cost-effectively track the savings of buildings they "treat", relative to the savings that they predict for those buildings. TREAT is designed to support the use of Total Quality Management techniques for gaining control of the process of predicting and implementing energy savings measures.

TREAT is the first to integrate room-by-room heat loss analysis with a state-of-the-art hourly energy model (developed by the United States Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Lab, NREL). By combining these two tools, TREAT will increase the ability of contractors to provide customers with &whole house& energy savings packages - combining HVAC improvements with building envelope improvements.

TREAT has a number of features designed to make the software package an indispensable tool for building performance contractors. TREAT has an extensive built-in library of building components that allow users to quickly select existing and improved building components.

TREAT allows users to calculate the existing electrical energy consumption resulting from appliances and lighting and select replacements, with Energy Star lighting and appliances highlighted in the component libraries.

TREAT addresses health and safety issues that impact the quality of life of customers and can therefore be significant sales motivators for contractors. TREAT includes a pop-up calculator to check for the availability of adequate combustion air and allows contractors to calculate fresh air ventilation supply and recommend ventilation systems as treatments.

TREAT is approved by US DOE for use in Weatherization Assistance Programs. TREAT allows auditors to analyze fuel information and match the performance of the building model to the actual energy bills before recommending improvements.