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<DIV><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
participated in the calibration of simulations of commercial buildings as part
of the BPA Energy Edge research project in the early 90's. The buildings
included high-rise office, small office, fast food, and
supermarket. The models were calibrated to hourly end-use data and, to a
lesser extent HVAC subsystem data. For example over 200 channels were
monitored for the large office building. Not all of the channels were used
for model calibration, however.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Amongst the published papers that came out of the research were the
following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>Kaplan Engineering and
Portland Energy<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>Conservation, Inc ,
(1991). <SPAN class=470541604-27062003>"</SPAN>Energy Edge Modelers
Guidelines<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=2>Report.<SPAN
class=470541604-27062003>"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </P><FONT
color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman">
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Kaplan Engineering
and Portland Energy<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Conservation, Inc ,
“Energy Edge Simulation<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Tuning
Methodologies”, prepared for Bonneville<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Power Administration
Commercial Technology Section<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">under
cooperative agreement #DE-FC79-85BP26683</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT
size=2></FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><o:p></o:p></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>Koran, W. E., M. B. Kaplan, et al. (1993).
“Two<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>DOE-2.1C model calibration methods.”
ASHRAE<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>Special Publications: Thermal Performance of
the<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=2>Exterior Envelope of Buidings.: 3-10.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </P><FONT color=#000000><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><o:p>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=2>Kaplan Engineering and Portland
Energy Conservation,<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt"><FONT size=2>Inc. (PECI). 1993. <I>Model
Tuning Final Report, Modeler’s<o:p></o:p></I></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=2><I><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">Retrospective, Energy Edge </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">Prepared for the
Bonneville<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT size=2><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt">Power Administration. Portland, Oregon,
December.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT
size=2> <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff><SPAN class=470541604-27062003><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2>Over
the Energy Edge: Results from a Seven Year
New<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=2>Commercial Buildings Research and Demonstration
Project</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=2><SPAN class=470541604-27062003>(final report from
LBNL)</SPAN></FONT></P></FONT></SPAN></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>T<SPAN class=470541604-27062003>here were also the
calibration ("tuning") reports for the individual buildings. An example
is</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2>Kaplan Engineering
and Portland Energy<SPAN class=470541604-27062003> </SPAN>Conservation, Inc<SPAN
class=470541604-27062003>. </SPAN> (<SPAN
class=470541604-27062003>1993</SPAN>).</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003>“</SPAN>Energy Edge<SPAN
class=470541604-27062003>:</SPAN> <SPAN class=470541604-27062003>SeaFirst
Tower at Bellevue Place Simulation Tuning”,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003><FONT size=2>prepared for Bonneville Power
Administration Commercial Technology Section<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">under
cooperative agreement #DE-FC79-85BP26683</SPAN></P></SPAN>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=470541604-27062003>In that calibration
exercise, the energy use categories calibrated were total building, total HVAC,
total interior lighting, receptacle plugs, elevators, and parking garage.
Within HVAC, energy for heating, cooling, AHUs, condenser pumps and cooling
tower fans, and chilled water pumps were individually
calibrated.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=470541604-27062003>--Bill Koran,
Honeywell Atrium</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=470541604-27062003></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></o:p></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> postman@gard.com
[mailto:postman@gard.com]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Peter Alspach<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:50 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
BLDG-SIM@GARD.COM<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BLDG-SIM] Validation of simulation
predictions<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone point me to papers that discuss the
validation of whole building energy models (DOE2 or others) with measured
building data? I am looking for papers discussing the accuracy that can be
achieved for both simulations based on comprehensive energy audits of existing
buildings and simulations based on design documents that are then compared to
measured performance of the building after occupation.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial
size=2>__________________________________________________</FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Peter Alspach</FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mechanical
Engineer</FONT> </P>
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