RIUSKA™

RIUSKA is an efficient and versatile comfort and energy simulation application. It uses a building’s information model (BIM) to calculate the thermal conditions of a building and its spaces in different loading and weather conditions.

The RIUSKA application can be used, e.g., for the following tasks:

• To ensure compliance with the objectives
• Temperatures of premises in summer and winter
• Comparison of indoor climate quality levels
• Comparison of architectural solutions (windows, window protection, façade solutions)
• Comparison and dimensioning of systems
• Analysis of problematic spaces
• Energy consumption of buildings and building systems
• Projected consumption of maintenance

The application takes into account structures, massiveness, local weather, thermal loads, usage hours and so forth. It performs hourly calculations on, for example, annual energy consumption, temperatures in various spaces and their constancy as well as heating and cooling needs.

RIUSKA is based on many years of development at Granlund and the core of the tool, the internationally acclaimed DOE 2.1E simulation program. RIUSKA has been developed in collaboration with the developer of the DOE program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

RIUSKA can utilise information models in the IFC format (import/export).