[Equest-users] eQuest Error Messages for California Title-24 Ruleset

[John Aulbach]

Those using eQuest for Title-24..

I am simply taking a building I have and running it through a minimalCompliance Run, just to understand how the T-24 ruleset works.

Does anyone know what the best file is to look at Ruleset errors?

I have gotten through a few, but have no direction from the prompts on others.

And, YES, I have read the on line Help info.

John Aulbach




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From: "Anand.Varahala at us.schneider-electric.com" <Anand.Varahala at us.schneider-electric.com>
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 7:53:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Multiple Floors with Multiple Roofs?


Jason, 

I will go ahead and assume you meant to say you created 3 "shells" (instead of 'models') and stacked them on top of each other. 

If you did this in the Design Development Wizard, you must have chosen a roof type for every shell, which would be incorrect according to eQUEST. One of the cons of eQUEST is unlike walls it doesn't automatically detect floors adjacent to roofs and 'crop' them accordingly. 
You will have to do this yourself in detailed data edit mode. There are two ways to do this: 

1. Assign a roof for every shell and then delete the portions that have a floor above. 
2. Do not create roofs for any of the floors except the top most, and then in detailed mode add roofs to the lower level floors as needed. 

I hope this will be fixed in the upcoming version 3.64, but we will have to wait and see. 

Hope it helps, let me know if you have more questions.
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----- Message from Jason Wendel <jwendel at heatheng.com> on Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:09:47 +0000 ----- 
To: "'equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org'" <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>  
Subject: [Equest-users] Multiple Floors with Multiple Roofs? 
I am modeling a building with 2-3 floors depending on where in the building you are.  Each of the floors are somewhat different so I created 3 models and stacked them on top of each other.  Once I got into the detailed mode I find that the program put a roof on each floor.  I had incorrectly assumed that if I put one floor on top of another, then the program would recognize that it’s “roof” is adjacent to another floor and make it adiabatic while overhangs and extended roofs would keep their “roof label”.  Do I now need to go through and delete all the roofs from the 1st and part of the 2nd floor?  Or does eQuest not take them in on the calculation because it knows that it should be adiabatic since it has a floor above it? 
  
 
  
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