SBEED: Small Building Energy Efficient Design

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See how much energy and money and carbon you can save by making various design or remodeling changes to your building with this new easy-to-use program. SBEED self installs as a stand-alone program on everything from Windows XP or later and macOS 10.6 or later. If you already have SBEED running, you can install this new version in the same folder, and all your data will be preserved. It will automatically Recalculate Old Projects to update each scheme.

SBEED is free.

SBEED Download Page

2019 CALIFORNIA ENERGY CODE for a SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE using HEED (PDF)

HEED and SBEED HINTS, KNOWN BUGS, AND WORKED EXAMPLES (PDF)

SBEED is built on our prior design tool called HEED, Home Energy Efficient Design, so you should find the HEED Tutorials and HEED support documents useful (go back to the prior screen):

SBEED Validation Against ASHRAE Standard 140-2014 (PDF)

SBEED Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Instructions on Copying Schemes or Projects to Another Computer (PDF)

Instructions on How to Assemble Multiple Schemes from Different PCs (PDF)