Below that panel are two different visualizations for that run. First is the Annual Performance Chart. You see the EUI by End Use bar chart by default. This chart shows the relative contributions of various end uses to the total EUI as a percentage. If you hover your cursor over the percentage, the actual value appears. The interactive geometry of that design option appears to the right of the bar. For the EUI by End Use chart only, you see activated a toggle to overlay the EUI Target/Benchmark on the chart. The EUI Target is shown as a green dotted line and EUI Benchmark as a red dotted line in the EUI axis. This feature is useful to evaluate where your design option fall relative to your project’s target and benchmark. The options for the Annual Performance Chart are EUI by End Use, Electricity Consumption by End Use, Peak Electric Demand by End Use, EUI Net, Annual PV Generation, Annual Carbon Footprint, Annual Utility Costs, Construction Costs, Daylight Autonomy, Continuous Daylight Autonomy, Useful Daylight Illuminance, Daylight Factor, and Average Illuminance. To the right of the Annual Performance Chart is Monthly Performance Chart with options to view EUI by End Use, EUI by Fuel Type, Electricity Consumption by End Use, Electric Demand by End Use, and Monthly Utility Costs. You can view both the annual and monthly charts in 2D or 3D, expand them for easier viewing, and export them as a PNG.

Below that panel are two visualizations for the runs, both are Annual Performance Charts. The charts function in the same way as the Single Run Chart, but you can see the bars for the four design options side-by-side, with the interactive geometry at the top of each bar. The options for both Annual Performance Charts are the same as those in the Single Run Chart. Allowing different chart options to be viewed side by side, for example EUI by End Use on the left and Daylight Autonomy on the right can be very useful in evaluating performance tradeoffs. You can view the charts in 2D or 3D, expand them for easier viewing, and export them as a PNG.

Select the checkbox for the Design and Performance Parameters of choice (no limit) and the chart automatically updates. It shows data in multiple axes aligned in parallel to each other. Each vertical axis represents a different Design Parameter and/or Performance Parameter that the designer wants to evaluate. Each design option is represented by a line that passes through each design criteria point on each axis. As you hover your cursor over each line it is highlighted orange and a heads-up display, or HUD, pops up in the upper left corner showing the geometry of that design with some additional design characteristics. If you click on the orange line, SPEED “locks” in that design option and you can go into the HUD and zoom and rotate the building geometry. If EUI or EUI Net is selected, you see activated a toggle to overlay the EUI Target/Benchmark on the chart. This feature is useful to evaluate where your design options fall relative to your project’s target and benchmark. The EUI Target is shown as a green dotted line and EUI Benchmark as a red dotted line. Another useful feature of the PCP is brushing. Brushing highlights a collection of lines, or design options, while fading out (ghosting) all the others. In other words, you can filter out a collection of design options based on the constraints you desire for any Design or Performance Parameter. You can view the chart in 2D or 3D, expand it for easier viewing, and export it as a PNG.

Select the two Performance Parameter of choice, what axis (y or x) you want them on, and the chart automatically updates. The 2D Scatter Plot consists of a grid where the two building Performance Parameters are plotted against each other with a series of points, with each point representing a single design option. As you hover your cursor over each point it is highlighted red and a heads-up display, or HUD, pops up in the upper left corner showing the geometry of that design with some additional design characteristics. If you click on the red dot, SPEED “locks” in that design option and you can go into the HUD and zoom and rotate the building geometry. You can change the size of the points, or spheres, by clicking the “lock” button at the top so it’s unlocked and zooming in and out within the lock control window, allowing for improved visualization of the design space. We added a cool (and useful) feature to SPEED by allowing the user to view the Footprint Shapes of each design option rather than uninformative spheres. Activate this feature by toggling from "Sphere" to "Building". You can change the size and view angle of the Footprint Shapes in the same way as for spheres. If EUI or EUI Net is selected, you see activated a toggle to overlay the EUI Target/Benchmark on the chart. This feature is useful to evaluate where your design options fall relative to your project’s target and benchmark. The EUI Target is shown as a green dotted line and EUI Benchmark as a red dotted line. The Output Preference Shading slider allows you to color-code the designs based upon whether you want to minimize or maximize each of the two performance objectives (using the min/max toggle) and moving the slider defaulted to 50 (equally weighted) to one side or the other reflecting one objective is more important than the other to the project team or client. Use the Pareto Front toggle to view a black line connecting the most optimal designs, meaning one objective can’t improve without the other getting worse. Another useful feature of the 2D Scatter Plot is applying constraints using the controls to the right of the plot. Applying constraints to a collection of points or footprint shapes greys out (ghosts) the design options. In other words, you can filter out a collection of design options based on the constraints you desire for any Design or Performance Parameter. You can expand the chart for easier viewing and export it as a PNG.

The 3D Scatter Plot is similar to the 2D Scatter Plot, but with a third dimension Select one Design Parameter and two Performance Parameters, what axis (x, y, or z) you want them on, and the chart automatically updates. Hovering over design options to view the heads-up display (HUD), selecting options to play with the interactive geometry, and the controls for resizing the spheres all work the same as in the 2D Scatter Plot. The toggle to overlay the EUI Target/Benchmark on the chart works the same as the 2D Scatter Plot, but with the added option to view the dotted lines as planes. This view makes it much easier to determine which of your designs fall close to your target for further investigation. When toggling from spheres to Footprint Shapes, rather than a flat 2D footprint shape you will see a 3D shape showing all the floors of each Footprint Shape, with the size of the floors scaled correctly based on the total building area. All remaining features of the 3D Scatter Plot such as using the Output Preference Shading slider and Pareto Front toggle to color-code weighted preferences for performance objectives and applying constraints to grey out (ghost) unwanted design options work the same as in the 2D Scatter Plot.

Select the checkbox for the Performance Parameter of choice and the chart automatically updates showing the importance of all your Design Parameters on that output. You can view the chart in 2D or 3D, expand it for easier viewing, and export it as a PNG.

Select the two Design Parameters and one Performance Parameter of choice, what axis (x, y, z) you want it on, and the chart automatically updates showing the dependencies between your selections. You can expand it for easier viewing and export it as a PNG.