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color=#0000ff size=2>Lynn,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Do you really need the plenums? Personally I find
them non-value-added for most of our energy study work. Suggest specifying
ceiling height equal to floor-to-floor height in the DD wizard to make them
disappear. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> BLDG-SIM@gard.com
[mailto:BLDG-SIM@gard.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Lynn Qualmann<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Thursday, July 12, 2007 3:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
BLDG-SIM@gard.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BLDG-SIM] Oh, what a tangled web we
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=356491421-12072007>I am using eQuest to
model an office building with 3 unique floors, many spaces (with diff't use
types) per floor and plenums between floors. I have already defined the
appropriate footprints for each floor and imported them into a single model.
NBD. Because there are many spaces per floor and plenums assume the shape of the
space they sit over, it seemed like a good idea to import the plenums as
separate, floor-shaped spaces. This was to allow internal floors and
ceilings of the non-plenum spaces to be specified as NEXT-TO the appropriate
plenum without any concern for the shape of the plenum. If each space on, say,
Floor1 had an associated plenum reflecting the space shape, the
spaces on Floor2 would not line up with those plenums. I defined neither a floor
or ceiling for the plenums so that interior floors and ceilings would be part of
the occupied spaces. As I'm sure many of you are thinking, DOE2 doesn't like
that arrangement and requires at least two TILTs among the
interior surfaces, i.e. walls + floor, walls + ceiling or floor + ceiling.
If I put a floor in the 1st-floor plenum, I need to specify which space it is
NEXT-TO and the approach falls apart. Obviously, the same deal applies to plenum
ceilings. Has anyone got any ideas of how to work around this? Is it better to
just associate the plenums with the spaces below them and let the chips fall
where they may when the separate floors are imported (i.e. can heat transfer
from/to plenums be ignored?)? Am I missing something really
obvious?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=356491421-12072007>Thanks in
advance.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=356491421-12072007>
<DIV align=left><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>R. Lynn Qualmann,
P.E</STRONG>.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>SBW Consulting, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>2820 Northup Way #230</FONT></DIV>
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