Hive 1.0.0 first release

This is the first official release of Hive.
Some features are de-activated from the user until some more testing and debugging has been done (energy systems, Amr plot, ...).

Hive v1.0.0 is functional for:

• monthly final energy demand analysis using SIA380 and SIA2024 data for a single zone building
• supports arbitrary rhino geometry, as long as it is linear and planar
• solar irradiation analysis unobstructed and obstructed
• yearly losses and gains analysis

This version will be used in the lecture Energy and Climate Systems 3 HS 2020, in the excercise E02 - Passive Solar Design.

Installation instructions and tutorials are currently only available to ETH studens, on moodle (https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/mod/folder/view.php?id=463234). (changed on 18.10.2020)

Dependencies (included in the Hive_v1.0.0.zip:

• Oxyplot
• Newtonsoft
• Honey-badger (https://github.com/architecture-building-systems/Honey-badger)
• SolarModel and GHSolar (https://github.com/christophwaibel/GH_Solar_V2)

Hive almost-first-release

The almost first release!
This state still has too many bugs to be used for teaching. But it has essentially most of the important features in some way:

• environment definition (weather, urban geometry)
• building definition (geometry, construction, cost, load parameters, ...)
• energy systems (ASHP, chiller, boiler, PV, SolarThermal)
• Visualizer component

Some more testing needs to be done (2 more weeks?) and it should be ready for 1.0.

As a user, find all required libraries in hive\GrasshopperExamples\Hive v0-9 libraries.zip and unpack them into your Rhino Grasshopper Components folder. Also note: not all examples in \GrasshopperExamples will work, but Hive_Full_Workflow.gh and Hive_Hidden_Core.gh should.

Hive Monthly Demand and PV

This release contains monthly energy demand calculation based on SIA 380, where solar gains and heat losses of individual surfaces are considered. Furtheremore, it has solar irradiation simulation (unobstructed and obstructed), as well as PV yield calculation and air source heat pump sizing. Monthly demand and PV production are visualized with a custom visualizer component.

This release is a slightly updated version from the April lecture in EuKS 2. Specifically, now, the SIA 380 demand calculation has been turned into one component, whereas it was a collection of ghpython scripts in the lecture.

How to:
Unpack hive.zip into your Grasshopper components library folder.

Hive First Lecture

This release contains the contents as used in the first Hive lecture, presented in Energie- und Klimasysteme 2 on 24. April 2020.

It contains SIA 380.1 monthly heating demand calculation with geometry from the Rhino viewport coupled to Grasshopper. The demand calculation uses a collection of ghpython scripts. Furthermore, solar gains are computed on windows and one PV surface. An air source heat pump is sized according to the peak heating load. Results for monthly heating and electricity (from the heat pump minus PV yield) demands are visualized with the GHVisualizer, a custom visualizer component that uses the OxyPlot library.

Current build to play around with

get the libraries.zip, unpack into your Rhino components grasshopper folder, mark them as trusted files, and give it a go!