As a part of the academic curriculum for Building Performance Modeling course at CMU, a baseline model was made for Scaife Hall building on campus, based on ASHRAE 90.1 and simulations were run for different aspects. Thereafter, based on results, a proposed model was developed using high-performance recommendations for the factors that seemed responsible for extra energy consumption. This process was performed with 3 different software (Revit, eQuest, and DesignBuilder with EnergyPlus) to analyze and compare their energy modeling performance.

As a result, an average of 30% decrease in the Energy Use Intensity, 15% in electricity consumption and 21% decrease in fuel consumption could be achieved using energy efficient options in the proposed models.