Finally the Energy Certification Program is here!

I know that all those who attended the SANS 204 course presented by SAIAT, were keen to start designing green building. Only to find the process was a daunting maze of calculations and look up tables. Design is a creative process, with logical parameters thrown in the mix. During the course we all tackled calculation after calculation, and when the result was "Not Compliant" you get the feeling of overwhelming failure, and ask yourself "where in all these calculation do I find the design solution?".

I had the knowledge and experience to create an easy to use program that can achieve the desired certified design (and show up design flaws). So blindly I set out to write a set of calculators and finally almost two years later, I have the completed "SANS 204- Certification program."

This is just the start, I believe, as the individual programs on the desk of architects & designers around South Africa, will now need to connect to a central server to gather data, and refine the data much like the weather stations, this data is constantly changing so to is energy data from appliances etc. So the program was build to get and use feedback data from the server, making it artificially intelligent, so any of the designers who manually calculate variations to the programs results, can simply use the "Percentage modifier" to tweak the program results and submit it to the server for data analysis. This way the program can learn over time.