Housing Technology Assessment Platform (HTAP)

HTAP is a collection of data and tools that automate and extend the HOT2000 residential energy simulation tool. The HOT2000 software suite can be obtained directly from Natural ResourcesCanada.

HTAP has been used to:

• Optimize the design of Net-Zero Energy and Net-Zero-Ready Housing, and deep energy retrofits
• Investigate the impact potential of different heating technologies in the Canadian housing stock
• Estimate costs and benefits associated with changes in the building code

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) developed HTAP to support research and program development. While HTAP is published in the hope others will find it useful, NRCan provides no warranty or support for the software or its users.

Requirements & Installation

HTAP requires the following components be installed on your computer:

• Ruby (http://rubyinstaller.org/)
• Git (https://git-scm.com/downloads)
• The HOT2000 command-line client, installed into C:\H2K-cli-min\

In addition to these, you may find the following tools useful:

• A text file editor, such as notepad++
• A data analysis program, such as Matlab, tableau or excel.

To install HTAP, check out the files from Git-hub:

C:\> git clone https://github.com/NRCan-IETS-CE-O-HBC/HTAP.git

Before you can run HTAP simulations, you must first copy the archetype files to the C:\H2K-CLI-Min\User\ directory. HTAP includes a ruby script to do this for you:

PS C:\> cd .\HTAP\Archetypes
PS C:\HTAP\Archetypes> ruby .\CopyToH2K.rb

Versions

The master branch contains the most stable version of HTAP. New features are regularly integrated into the general-dev branch. Other branches include new features under development for future versions of HTAP.

Documentation

• Introduction to HTAP: a summary of HTAP features and use
• HTAP-input-and-output.md: Documentation for HTAP input & output

Contributors

HTAP is developed and maintained by CanmetENERGY-Ottawa, a division of Natural Resources Canada. HTAP's current capabilities reflect contributions from the National Research Council and other third-party contributors.

Natural Resources Canada / CanmetENERGY Ottawa

• Alex Ferguson
• Jeff Blake
• Julia Purdy
• Rasoul Asaee

National Research Council

• Adam Wills

StepWin

• Arman Mottaghi

Contact

Direct inquiries about HTAP and related projects to Alex.Ferguson@canada.ca