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Is this similar to the student design competition that the USGBC and
chapters organize ? <br>
<<The USGBC Boston chapter is hosting a design competition which is
managed by the Emerging Green Builders (EGB - Students & Young
Proffesionals). >><br>
We initiated that competition at the chapter level here in Philadelphia,
in my opinion it is much more realistic to have a real site and client
that the students can see and interface with. Hence local works
well. We did give them, at least in the first year when I was
involved, an intro to make sure basic environmental engineering
principles were covered. But to have actual calcs however
rudimentary, I agree that would be great. In general these
competitions do tend to be about pretty pictures ( from my experience in
a past life as an architect I would say ruefully that that is generally
the usual way to get picked out in a competition, especially where
architects are involved.) <br>
I feel that at this point the green/sustainable building field needs more
technically rooted designers and decision makers. The use of
metrics and realistic modeling is certainly a part of that.<br><br>
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At 09:47 AM 9/12/2008, Ryan Lacey wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>Hello,<br>
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I am helping out with the planning of the student design competition for
the upcoming NESEA conference this up coming March.
(<a href="http://www.buildingenergy.nesea.org/">
http://www.buildingenergy.nesea.org/</a>) I think it would be
great if the contestants in addition to designing sexy building to have
the design heating and cooling loads as part of their entry. Can
anybody recommend any friendly software that would be forgiving for first
time users and the technically impaired? I know that HAP puts out a
basic block load calculator but my major issue with it is that it does
not take into account the potential of shading its self as a result of
complex building forms and asking contestants to use EQuest would just be
crewel. I am looking for a happy medium that would have the
building geometry front end that Equest that doesn’t require a PE to
operate. Any help or recommendations would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks!<br>
<br>
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Ryan Lacey<br>
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Petersen Engineering, Inc.<br>
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Phone 603.436.4233 x113<br>
Fax 603.436.4294<br>
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www.petersenengineering.com</a><br>
ryan@petersenengineering.com<br>
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<font color="#800000">Dean Sherwin CPE<br>
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LEED Accredited Professional<br>
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CONSTRUCTION COST MANAGEMENT<br>
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PO Box 11<br>
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fax (610) 892 7862<br>
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