[Bldg-sim] Actual Weather Data and Re: Expert Opinion on Energ. Bldg Simulation in Urban Context

[Varkie Thomas]

Pravin Bhiwapurkar did is Ph.D. at IIT-Chicago on Urban Heat Islands.  He used DOE2.1E and eQUEST for the study.  It required getting raw weather data from NCDC-NOAA for several years for several locations in downtown Chicago and the Chicago suburbs and converting it into binary data for use by DOE2.  Pravin now works for the Energy Center of Wisconsin
http://www.ecw.org/
Hi All, 
I’m new to the industry and have been asked to run an energy model that was constructed in eQuest with actual weather data for 2005 for the purpose of comparing the model to the actual energy usage. Does anyone have suggestions or resources for getting actual weather data into a suitable (TMY or TMY2) format for eQuest? It seems that the TMY2 data that eQuest uses is in binary and may not use all of the fields that the TMY2 standard file layout includes. Any help is appreciated. 
 Have a pleasant day!
 Josh
Commissioning and Green Building Solutions, Inc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: fazia.alitoudert at daad-alumni.de 
Date: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 5:32 am 
Subject: [Bldg-sim] Expert Opinion on Energ. Bldg Simulation in Urban Context 
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org 

> Dear Colleagues, 
> 
> I am just starting with a research dealing with the energy 
> performance 
> of urban 
> buildings. The focus is put on the urban context, that is how 
> would be 
> the energy consumption, thermal and comfort conditions of a 
> building 
> if placed in a dense built area? also which urban and building 
> describers are the most decisive? Several urban arrangements (plan 
> 
> density, H/W, etc.) and various building shapes (and 
> properties:Materials, Use, etc.) will be studied. 
> 
> I am right now looking for the best tool for performing my 
> simulations, so preferably a building energy model (with a strong 
> physical basis) but including a 3D geometry module. 
> I would be very grateful if I can have some expert opinion on 
> which 
> tool would be the most appropriate: 
> 1. TRNSYS is a powerful tool but I still do not know whether it 
> can 
> include any 
> surrounding buildings (or even vertical screens offset from the 
> main 
> building which would serve to represent those surroudings?) 
> 2. TAS includes a 3D modeller which allows the design of the whole 
> 3D 
> area but I have not used it so far so I do not really know its 
> capabilities, strengthens and weaknesses. 
> 3. Other models...? Please let me know for any proposed tool about 
> its 
> ease of use vs. complexity. and how much time I need to learn use it. 
> 4. Of course, I welcome every advice, literature references, or 
> any 
> useful material. 
> Many Thanks in advance, 
> Best regards, 
> Fazia A. 
> 
> --------------------------------------------- 
> Fazia Ali-Toudert, Arch. Ph.D. 
> University of Dortmund - Faculty of Building 
> Chair for Environmental Architecture 
> Baroper Str. 301 
> D-44227 Dortmund 
> Phone: +49 231 755 5426 
> Fax: +49 231 755 5423 
> website: http://www.bauwesen.uni-dortmund.de/ka/ 
> email: fazia.alitoudert at daad-alumni.de 
> fazia.alitoudert at tu-dortmund.de 
> 
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