Climate-responsive building design holds immense potential for enhancing comfort, energy efficiency, and environmental sustainability. However, many social, cultural, and economic obstacles might prevent the wide adoption of designing climate-adapted buildings. One of these obstacles can be removed by enabling practitioners to easily access, visualize and analyze local climate data. The CBE Clima Tool (Clima) is a free and open-source web application that offers easy access to publicly available weather files and has been created for building energy simulation and design. It provides a series of interactive visualizations of the variables contained in the EnergyPlus Weather Files and several derived ones like the UTCI or the adaptive comfort indices. It is aimed at students, educators, and practitioners in the architecture and engineering fields. Since its inception, Clima’s user base has exhibited robust growth, attracting over 25,000 unique users annually from across 70 countries. Our tool is poised to revolutionize climate-adaptive building design, transcending geographical boundaries and fostering innovation in the architecture and engineering fields.

气候响应型建筑设计在提高舒适度、能源效率和环境可持续性方面具有巨大潜力。然而，许多社会、文化和经济障碍可能会阻碍气候适应建筑设计的广泛采用。通过使从业者能够轻松访问、可视化和分析当地气候数据，可以消除这些障碍之一。CBE Clima Tool (Clima) 是一款免费的开源 Web 应用程序，可轻松访问公开可用的天气文件，专为建筑能源模拟和设计而创建。它提供了 EnergyPlus 天气文件中包含的变量以及几个派生变量（例如 UTCI 或自适应舒适指数）中包含的变量的一系列交互式可视化。它面向建筑和工程领域的学生、教育工作者和从业者。自成立以来，Clima 的用户群呈现强劲增长，每年吸引来自 70 个国家的超过 25,000 名独立用户。我们的工具有望彻底改变气候适应性建筑设计，超越地理界限，促进建筑和工程领域的创新。