Keywords: energy-efficient design, life cycle simulation, cloud computing, BIM, high performance computing, high throughput computing, ISES.

The building design phase as well as re-design/retrofitting of existing buildings and facilities are an important domain of energy and emission reduction of a building. There are several identified gaps in the current information-communication technology support of energy-efficient design and operation, for example: interoperability between energy analysis and building design tools, use of stochastic analysis for energy life-cycle calculations, etc.

The paper describes the implementation details of a new online platform; including end-user scenarios and requirements, end-user and platform level services and tools as well as description of integrated end-user energy related applications. It provides description of two pilot projects that ware used to developed and later evaluate the architecture and implementation of the platform. The evaluation provides performance benchmarks of the platform that show the benefits of using different computing environments for enabling open energy-efficient building design and simulation.

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