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SOEP Coordination meeting

Date: July 8, 2026, 8:15am-9am Pacific Times

The purpose of this meeting is to coordinate the development of the Modelica Buildings Library, including the integration with EnergyPlus and OpenStudio.

Meeting information

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://lbnl.zoom.us/my/mwetter

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +14086380968,6614042296# or +16465588656,6614042296#

Or Telephone:
Dial: +1 408 638 0968 (US Toll) or +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll) Meeting ID: 661 404 2296 International numbers available: https://lbnl.zoom.us/zoomconference?m=_h5BuJ686mPy3rWEyKf4NROxLaeOV5J8

Agenda

  1. Previous action items
  2. AOP alignment
  3. DOE quarterly report
  4. Auto-sizing
  5. Modelica Buildings Library
  6. Other items

Participants

David Blum
Jianjun Hu
Michael Wetter

Minutes

AOP alignment

FY26 AOPs.

LBNL: 9/30/26: Released Modelica Buildings Library with additional models for high performance heating and cooling plants, and with HVAC auto-sizing capability based on automated EnergyPlus load calculation

DOE quarterly report

Finish contribution by COB this Friday.

Sizing

No discussion, Kyle was not able to join the call.

Draft specification at https://lbl-srg.github.io/soep/softwareArchitecture.html.

Documentation still needs to be revised.

Modelica Buildings Library

Changes to pressure drop model (now on master): https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/pull/4633

Tough coupling, Michael to review and merge: https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/pull/3696

Backlog on fixing various issue, focus on https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/milestone/30

Block "summary" with main variables.

PNNL priority is zone side templates.

PNNL has milestones for end of FY to implement heat pump water heater, mostly using existing classes. Karthik works on finishing it for the PR.

Finish DX dehumidifier. Jianjun to update model, see review comments. https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/pull/3475

Finish direct evaporative cooler. Karthik to address feedback. https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/pull/3755

ORNL was working on template for DOAS. Depends on air filter and dx dehumidifier.

EnergyPlus-Modelica coupling

Spawn related PR at https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/projects/2

Issues are at https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aspawn

Next, work on https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/projects/2

OS compatibility matrix is at https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/wiki/OpenStudio-SDK-Version-Compatibility-Matrix

Other items

None.

New action items

Previous action items

Finish the adiabatic cooler model https://github.com/lbl-srg/modelica-buildings/pull/3755 (Jianjun and Weiping work on a merge with their model)

Focus on finishing pending PRs and addressing outstanding tickets.

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