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The North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (NAIMA) uses ®, an insulation performance model that estimates required insulation thickness, surface temperatures, efficiency, heat loss and gain, and more within 欧博娱乐 constraints of a user’s project and construction methods. The three E’s represent energy calculations to estimate performance, environmental impact estimations, and economic cost/payback estimations.

3E Plus® suffered from issues of maintainability. Data was decentralized, collaboration ad-hoc, and each insulation manufacturer hosted a unique version of 欧博娱乐 tool. Adding new features or fixing bugs was bordering on impossible, and yet 欧博娱乐 mechanical insulation industry relies on this tool. 

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We took ownership of 欧博娱乐 application, centralized data using a cloud-hosted database, and created a custom web platform using open source software to bring all users under 欧博娱乐 same umbrella.  The calculation engine was rebuilt from scratch and paired with a modern front end to provide users with an intuitive and optimal experience.

Our flexible design approach gave us 欧博娱乐 ability to easily add new features, immediately respond to feedback, and tweak interface elements as required. We also added modern collaboration features like teams for project and material specifications sharing. Perhaps most importantly, we vastly expanded 欧博娱乐 scope of our calculations to easily configure thousands of model runs into a single set of parameters.

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