Exploring ways to improve how we design and analyze the built environment

Pease Studio is a collection of browser-based tools for building performance. Everything is a beta version today as I continue to refine with feedback and discovery.

Psychrometric Studio
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Psychrometric Studio

Moist-air analysis for real buildings

  • Seventeen equipment types, solved stage by stage
  • ASHRAE 55-2023 comfort, evaluated live as you work
  • A full year of EPW weather counted against your design

Selected research

All papers
  1. Pease, P., J. Chhabra, A. Padwal, and Z. Zolfaghari. 2023. Passive or active, mapping the highest impact HVAC design interventions across the USA. 2023 ASHRAE Winter Conference. doi.org/10.63044/w23pea71

    Which HVAC change actually cuts the most carbon depends on where the building is. This maps the highest-impact intervention for every climate zone in the USA, so the answer stops being a guess.

  2. Pease, P., A. Padwal, and M. Tahmasebi. 2023. Scaling decarbonization with early-stage energy modeling. ASHRAE Transactions 129:708–714. doi.org/10.63044/s23pea80

    The cheapest carbon reductions are decided before anyone opens a modelling tool. This argues for moving energy analysis to the earliest design stage, where a decision still costs nothing to change.

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I lead building performance simulation for Buro Happold's US offices, and I've spent fourteen years on whole-building energy modelling and the workflows that make simulation scalable. These tools are the parts of that work that were worth building properly.