[Equest-users] 90.1 and Appendix A Materials

[Seth P. Spangler]

Paul,

 

I've been browsing through the ASHRAE DOE-2 files since receiving your email. I believe I have been following the same rabbit trail that Nick has so it would be great to have canned constructions. Can you explain the best method for importing the ASHRAE constructions into a model? I assume the edit must be made in the INP file. I typically try to avoid editing the INP file since my knowledge of the "code" behind eQuest is limited.

 

Thanks

 

Seth Spangler, LEED® AP 

Project Engineer

 

RMF Engineering, Inc 

Ph: (843) 971-9639 ext:1497

Fax: (843) 971-9641 

sspangle at rmf.com

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Paul Riemer
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 5:00 PM
To: 'Nick Caton'; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] 90.1 and Appendix A Materials

 

Nick,

The DO2.1e input files available as part of the 90.1 User's Manual rely on the DOE2 library of construction materials.

 

Paul Riemer

Dunham

 

 

From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Nick Caton
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:43 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] 90.1 and Appendix A Materials

 

Has anyone invested the time to create or otherwise stumbled across an *.inp file that contains the materials defined in Appendix A9 for easy import/use?

 

I had a model reviewer (not USGBC) who was unsatisfied with the material thermal properties in the default DOE2 library.  I ultimately went through the enormously entertaining exercise of defining materials with matching prescriptive R-values, while still using library data to retain appropriate thermal massing properties to avoid construction errors from weightless constructions.

 

This was an isolated case, but I could see such a file being a very handy resource for most modelers, particularly if it contained the contents of Tables A9.2A and 9.2B to pull the effective insulation/framing properties into our custom construction layers.

 

If this is flying over anyone's head who's interested, attached is a partial example of what I'm talking about - if you click File à Import File... and navigate to this file, you'll have a couple defined materials ready to access for your project within seconds - conceivably everything within 90.1 if someone had the time to invest...

 

On a related note... and I should have asked before, but does Section A9.2 possibly exempt the rest of Section A9 for eQuest users who rely on unmodified default library entries to define their custom envelope constructions?

 

~Nick

 

 

 

 

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