Trace 700 Software

TRACE 700 enables building designers to optimize the building, system and equipment designs on the basis of energy utilization and life-cycle cost. The Trane software for TRACE 700 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.

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1 Select System Features

2 Select Equipment Features

3 Multiple Equipment Types

4 Equipment Library

5 TRACE 700 Integration

6 TRACE 700 Compliance

7 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

8 Related FAQ

Select System Features

Underfloor 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
Optimal chiller sequencing

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
Sophisticated evaporative cooling

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
ASHRAE Standard 90.1-2010

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.
ASHRAE Standard 170 calculate ventilation requirements for healthcare facilities per Standard 170, Standard 62.1 or a combination of both.
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

LEED analysis ability to model proposed and baseline models from ASHRAE Standard 90.1 for LEED analysis. The latest versions of TRACE introduced the new LEED Guide and Baseline Building Creator, and LEED Automation which make modeling for LEED certification faster and easier.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140-2011 and 179D Commercial Building Tax Credits for projects placed in service on or before Dec 31, 2015 – tested in compliance with Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140 – 2014 and 179D Commercial Building Tax Credits for projects placed in service on or after Jan 1, 2016 – tested in compliance with Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

To install and run the program you will need: a Pentium® 4 or higher processor, Microsoft Windows® 7/8 operating system, at least 1 gigabyte (GB) of RAM, and 500 MB of free hard-disk space (750 if Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 is not already installed).