[Equest-users] Appendix G saving calculation

Bruce Easterbrook bruce5 at bellnet.ca
Mon Apr 26 05:24:18 PDT 2010


I think you need to revisit your load categories.  Your percentage of 
lighting load looks low.  Remember lighting is not just an electrical 
load there is also a heat load associated with lights as well.  High 
efficiency lighting is normally a very effective upgrade and easy points.
Bruce Easterbrook
Abode Engineering

On 26/04/2010 08:00 AM, cic at jci.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The baseline building shows the following consumption distribution.
>
> HVAC - 40%
> Lighting - 10%
> Misc Equipment - 50% (includes Office equipments, Lifts/Escalator, 
> Misc equipments, Water/sewage/fire system loads)
>
> The overall savings of proposed model is much less than 10% 
> savings,even if  the proposed model saves 20% in HVAC ,  20% in 
> Lightings & nothing in MISC loads.
> Whereas EAC1 require 12% savings for core and shell bldg to achieve 
> minimum 3 points.
>
> My question is
>
> What needs to be done to get the EA credit other than HVAC and lightings?
> Is it possible to reduce the MISC Equipments loads (ie process) & use 
> it for saving calculation?. How we can reflect that in eQuest.(as 90.1 
> says both baseline and proposed models should have same loads).
>
> or any ideas to maximise the EA Credit points.
>
> Thanks for your contribution.
>
> Regards,
> Kathiresan
> -
>
>
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