TRACE 700 Program Features

The TRACE™ 700 Advantage

TRACE 700 enables building designers to optimize the building, system and equipment designs on the basis of energy utilization and life-cycle cost. The software facilitates analysis of the energy and economic effects of virtually any chiller plant configuration by allowing users to manipulate a wide range of variables and create a profile of their specific building.

Select System Features

• Under floor air distribution systems
• Active and passive chilled-beam systems
• Displacement ventilation systems
• Variable refrigerant flow systems
• Dedicated outdoor air systems
• Airside economizers
• Optimum stop/start
• Fan-pressure optimization
• ASHRAE Standard 62.1/CO2 -based, demand-controlled ventilation (DCV)
• Energy recovery (total-energy wheel, Trane CDQ, coil-runaround loop)
• Supply-air-temperature reset
• Drag-and-drop room assignments

Select Equipment Features

• Chiller Plant Wizard (decoupled arrangement, parallel series, variable-primary flow, switchover control)
• Cogeneration
• Thermal energy storage
• Direct-fired absorption chillers
• Low-flow chilled water
• Free cooling (plate-and-frame, refrigerant migration, strainer cycle, double-bundle heat recovery)
• Cooling tower with VFD
• Chiller-tower optimization
• Domestic hot water

Multiple Equipment Types

• Air/water-cooled chillers
• Air/water-cooled unitary
• Water-source heat pumps
• Ground-source heat pumps
• Boilers
• Electric resistance heat
• Gas-fired heat exchanger

Equipment Library

• Default Equipment
• ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2004
• ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2007

TRACE 700 Integration

• Templates allow same room criteria to be entered once and applied to (or changed in) an unlimited number of rooms.
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the form of a gbXML import from CAD (e.g. Revit), allows users to conduct extensive load and energy calculations in TRACE 700.
• Choose from nearly 500 pre-defined weather locations or import weather data from TMY, TMY2,TMY3, TRY, WY2, CEC, CTZ, CWC, and IWEC files. Models can be calculated using a reduced year weather file allowing for quick results or a full-year model can be run accounting for every hour of the year. View the list of International weather data.
• ASHRAE Standard 62 Ventilation Rate Procedure during the design process to calculate the correct amount of outdoor air to be introduced at the air handler.

TRACE 700 Compliance

• ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140 - tested in compliance with Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs. Read the confirmation letter.
• LEED analysis - ability to model proposed and baseline models from ASHRAE Standard 90.1 for LEED analysis.

Additional Resources

• TRACE 700 methodology and calculations (PDF)
• TRACE 700 wins product of the year!