AkWarm

AKWarm Energy Use Software

Let us introduce Alaska Housing Finance Corporation’s computerized home energy audit tool. It was developed to assist energy raters, weatherization assessors, builders, designers and homeowners to evaluate the energy performance of homes.

AkWarm was designed in Alaska specifically for Alaska’s residential housing needs. 

AkWarm Will Allow You to: 
  • Create, modify and save a house data file.
  • Analyze energy use.
  • Show compliance with the Alaska Building Energy Efficiency Standard for new construction.
  • Generate a Home Energy Rating that is accepted by all the major lending institutions (Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, VA, FHA, AHFC) for use in obtaining energy efficient mortgages, and by AHFC for obtaining an energy efficiency interest rate reduction.
  • Compute the savings of individual energy conservation measures.
  • Produce reports on home energy use and improvement recommendations. AkWarm's "Annual Heat Flows" report has been accepted by municipal building code departments for showing design heat load calculations. 
 
AkWarm System Requirements
 
AkWarm runs on any computer with:
  • an 80386 (known as a "386" computer) or greater microprocessor with a 3.5-inch (1.44-MB) high density floppy disk drive. A 486 DX or 486SL with a built-in math coprocessor is highly recommended.
  • a hard drive with at least 5 MB of free disk space;
  • at least 4 MB of RAM - 8 MB of RAM is ideal;
  • MS-DOS operating system 3.1 or later version;
  • Microsoft Windows 3.0 or later version, or Windows 95;
  • VGA or higher resolution video adapter compatible with the version of Microsoft Windows in use;
  • A mouse or other type of pointing device. 
 
 
What's On The Disks
 
The AkWarm setup "AkWarm: Installing"  "Installing AkWarm" program will create a new program group with 7 icons. Setup installs the following files:
 
AkWarm Program (akwarm.exe)  This house logo is the icon to click on when you want to run AkWarm, to either create a new file or open existing files. Double click to open the program to a blank screen for a new file.
 
AkWarm File Copy (akxfer.exe)  This program makes it easy for you to copy files from your *.hom directory to a floppy disk or another directory. It will sort files and allow you to select certain files by date from the total directory of files.
 
AkWarm Help:  the AkWarm on-line help file which contains the full text of the user manual AkWarm Rescue (akwresq.exe) This program is used for troubleshooting when there is a problem installing AkWarm on your hard drive. It looks through your Windows directory to determine if there are any incompatible files. It will identify any files that appear to conflict with AkWarm files and alert you to any modifications it needs to make.
 
Uninstall AkWarm: If you ever decide to remove AkWarm from your hard drive, this program will remove the programs and the icons, as well as the files it has placed in other locations of your Windows directory.
 
Datasheet:  A simple-to-use data collection form is available in a Microsoft Word( 2.0 format. It should be possible to open it from within Word or another word processing program.