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  • 15 Sep 09
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    Colin Bennett

    Steven Chu at the Department of Energy just opened up $346 million in stimulus funds for boosting the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings — but thinking ahead to new design, he wants the best ideas to be incorporated into structure designs from the beginning.

    How better tap into the hive mind than with an open-source software platform.

    He wants the DOE to provide advanced design tools for free or at very low cost so that it will become almost automatic that builders use the tools.

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