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Jelena SrebricUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
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Course materials, public software, and reference models for a closer look at buildings, energy, and environmental design.

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TeachingJelena’s teaching

Urban Microclimate and Energy

University of Maryland · Jelena Srebric

The official Spring 2021 syllabus for ENME 424 / 742: heat transfer, building energy simulation, and the influence of neighborhoods on buildings.

  • Urban microclimate
  • Building energy
  • Course syllabus
Source, context & reuse

The syllabus identifies Jelena Srebric as instructor. It documents a past offering and its course project on UMD campus building microenvironments and energy use.

Historical course material · Spring 2021. Consult current schedules for new offerings.

Official UMD syllabus Consult the resource owner for reuse terms.
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TeachingJelena’s teaching

Indoor Environment and Mechanical Systems

University of Maryland · Mechanical Engineering

The official course overview for ENME 422, jointly offered with ENME 753, covering indoor air quality, measurement, and building systems.

  • Indoor air quality
  • Mechanical systems
  • Course overview
Source, context & reuse

UMD’s Fall 2026 ENME 753 schedule lists Jelena Srebric as instructor. The department course page provides the course description and prerequisites.

Public course description; enrolled-student materials may require UMD access.

Fall 2026 instructor listing Consult the resource owner for reuse terms.
Read course overviewFall 2026 schedule
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SoftwareRelated historical project

OpenStudio Node.js

EEB Hub · Building Science GROUP · NREL collaboration

A historical repository exploring JavaScript interfaces for building energy simulation with OpenStudio and EnergyPlus.

  • Building energy
  • OpenStudio
  • Historical software
Source, context & reuse

The project README credits funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and Dr. Jelena Srebric. It attributes development to the EEB Hub collaboration.

The README describes an April 2014 implementation. Current compatibility and maintenance are unverified.

README: team and funding Repository license (MIT-based)
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SoftwareExternal reference

CBE Thermal Comfort Tool

UC Berkeley · Center for the Built Environment

Explore thermal comfort models and compare environmental conditions through an interactive browser tool.

  • Thermal comfort
  • Interactive tool
  • Building performance
Source, context & reuse

An independently developed reference for the thermal-comfort questions found in Jelena’s building-environment research. Authorship belongs to the CBE team.

CBE project and authorship Consult the resource owner for reuse terms.Tool publication · Tartarini et al., 2020
Open comfort toolSource repository
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Models & dataExternal reference

CBE Clima Tool

UC Berkeley · Center for the Built Environment

Explore weather files and climate visualizations for building design, including downloadable graphics.

  • Weather data
  • Climate analysis
  • Visualization
Source, context & reuse

An external resource for exploring climatic context alongside the urban-microclimate and building-energy topics described in Jelena’s official UMD profile.

CBE project description Repository license (MIT) Tool publication · Betti et al., 2023
Explore climate dataSource repository
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SoftwareExternal reference

EnergyPlus

U.S. Department of Energy · EnergyPlus development team

Whole-building simulation software for energy consumption and water use, with public source code and modeling documentation.

  • Energy simulation
  • Source code
  • Documentation
Source, context & reuse

An external building-energy simulation resource. EnergyPlus is also named as an underlying tool in the historical EEB Hub OpenStudio Node.js project.

Official development repository Repository license (BSD-3-like)
Explore EnergyPlusDocumentation
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Models & dataExternal reference

Commercial Reference Buildings

U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories

Reference building models and descriptions for comparing whole-building energy simulations across building types and climate zones.

  • Reference models
  • Building energy
  • Benchmarking
Source, context & reuse

External benchmark models relevant to learning building-energy analysis. These are DOE reference buildings; they do not represent measurements from Jelena’s lab.

DOE model collection Consult the resource owner for reuse terms.
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