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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">m currently working on a project in Berkeley, CA with an underground concrete building with very high thermal mass. We</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">w</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ould like</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> to avoid air conditioning by mechanically ventilating the building at night, and would like to model this for some preliminary results. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">D</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">oes anyone</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> have any suggestions for an appropriate software program to model this? </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">re</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> the ground heat transfer/thermal mass modeling capabilities of DOE 2.2 are sufficient to model this project in eQuest or Visual DOE?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Right now, we are planning on using EnergyPlus, but I wanted to make su</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">re there wasn</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">’</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">t another (less time consuming option) out there!</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> </FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">D</FONT><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">oes anyone know if any of the EnergyPlus interfaces could handle this (i.e.</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Design Builder)?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thank you!</FONT></SPAN></P>
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