Participating students and faculty mentors are provided with free licenses to software for the duration of the challenge to carry out building performance simulations and test their design ideas. This software contains a suite of state-of-the-art performance analysis tools in easy-to-use interfaces, trusted by engineers, architects, and energy assessors the world over. Participating teams can conduct a variety of tests and analyses for their projects, such as design optimisation, parametric analysis, Computational-Fluid Dynamics analysis, and many more. These tests are helpful to make design decisions, measure performance, and compare performances of design alternatives.

• Each member of a team is provided a license to IES-VE software.
• Select members of a team is provided a license to DesignBuilder™ software.
• Each member of a team is provided a license to ClimateStudio software.

Note: Although the organisers are providing access the above software, teams are free to use any dynamic simulation modelling software of their choice.