Abstract
No single building performance simulation program contains sufficient capabilities and flexibility to fully respond to the full complexity of modern building design and analysis. Consequently, considerable efforts and advances have been made to facilitate the integrated use of multiple simulation tools to provide more extensive modelling capabilities. The research reported in this article has made a contribution towards the goal of integrated simulation by focusing on the internal coupling of component models from a modular simulation environment into a comprehensive building performance simulation tool. A flexible and extensible facility has been designed and developed to enable the use of HVAC component models (TYPEs) from the TRNSYS simulation program within the ESP-r simulation platform. With this, the source code for any number of TRNSYS TYPEs can be compiled with the ESP-r source code to produce an integrated simulation tool that possesses greater capabilities than either simulation program alone.
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