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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=319495717-30112007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Bldg Sim Community,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=319495717-30112007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>All we are saying (from the perspective of 90.1 and
yes, surprise some of us actually do design buildings (but we could use
more!!!!(plug here))) is that orientation DOES matter. Yes you may have
site constraints, yes you may have programmatic constrains, but the fact
remains, the DESIGN team needs to be aware of where they are putting glass, and
design with the site and site resources/opportunities.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Leonard Sciarra, AIA, LEED ap<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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size=2>G E N S L E R | Architecture & Design Worldwide</FONT></SPAN></P>
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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>Peter Simmonds<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Friday, November 30, 2007 8:34 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
BLDG-SIM@gard.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [BLDG-SIM] LEED Building
Orientation<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: green; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Here here <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Brandon</st1:place></st1:City>. A building is a
building and that’s that. I have sat through many charette’s on ‘tree
hugging’ projects to hear how the buildings orientation can affect the cooling
and heating load, let alone natural daylighting. Only to hear the wise men of
90.1 (who have never designed a building) to come up with some ‘weighted’
average to change the results. The designer ends up doing four different runs
only to find out that the architect didn’t have clue what he was trying to do in
the first place.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<st1:PersonName w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName>
[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName>] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Brandon Nichols<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:48
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [BLDG-SIM] <st1:place
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Orientation</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">All,</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">The building
rotation requirement is utterly nonsensical. For a full-text rant on the
subject, see my previous post:</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"><A
href="http://www.gard.com/ml/bldg-sim-archive/msg04038.html">http://www.gard.com/ml/bldg-sim-archive/msg04038.html</A> </SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">In summary:</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">1) In the
case of many new buildings (90% or more I would estimate), there is
very little latitude for changing the orientation. For example the main
street and therefore the lobby and entryway may be on one side and one side
only of the building, the aspect ratio of the building may not fit on the
lot in two of the four orientations, etc.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">2) The
fictitious, etheral 'averaged' building does not exist even in the computer code
of the best analysis programs we have at our disposal to date.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">3) All baseline
numbers for each of the four orientations would need to be extracted from the
analysis software, and averaged on a spreadsheet. Similarly each and every
EEM would need to be extracted, and the project's comparative analysis done on a
spreadsheet instead of the within the analysis software itself. Thanks,
but I have a life, wife and family.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">4) If this
requirement still sounds like a good idea from the comfort of your
tenured office, I say come on out and run couple of dozen real-life energy
code and LEED compliance simulations for me within budget and on deadline
in Q1-Q2 2008 and you'll begin to understand what I'm talking
about.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Why not
simply allow selecting the orientation closest to, without performing worse
than, the 'average' as the baseline? This simple change would allow
the baseline numbers to reside within the analysis
software.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Alternatively
the eQuest developers are rumored to be working on a 90.1 Appendix G compliance
module. Upon release, if it automates the averaging I may be inclined
retire some portion of this diatribe. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Courier New" color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Courier New'">Best idea yet,
drop this as a requirement, and make it optional where it makes sense to do so.
Utilize by default the far more intuitive (and useful in terms of energy
incentives) 'code minimum' baseline building, oriented identically to the
proposed. This is the approach I've been able to convince our state energy
code and utility rebate reviewers to accept -- its just hardened LEED extremists
who still seem to have their head in the sand on this.
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[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName>] <B><SPAN
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</SPAN></B>Edward.A.Decker@jci.com<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 29, 2007 3:59
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [BLDG-SIM] <st1:place
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Orientation</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif">Can you not apply
various fenestrations and shading to the model without having to change its
orientation? For an existing building, including LEED EB, what additional
benefit could be gained by rotating the model since you cannot change the
orientation?</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: sans-serif">_____________________________________________<BR>Edward
A. Decker<BR></SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><o:p></o:p></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is
true, however, even with an existing building, you as the designer/engineer have
the option of "working" the facades and applying appropriate fenestration,
shading, etc... you can still make good/bad decisions and the fact that your
footprint is fixed should not give the design team a waiver from the fact that
the sun still rises in the east and sets in the west. In fact it may be a
benefit if perhaps your building is shaded on the west by itself.</SPAN></FONT>
<BR> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Leonard Sciarra, AIA, LEED
ap</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">312.577.6580 (Dir)</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">G
E N S L E R | Architecture & Design Worldwide</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">312.456.0123</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">
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[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName>] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Ross-Bain, Jeff<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:40
PM<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Cc:</SPAN></B> keith_lane@g-g-d.com<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Subject:</SPAN></B> [BLDG-SIM] <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">LEED</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
Orientation</SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Here is my question to
and response from the USGBC regarding this issue:</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dear LEED
Info,</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There has been a lot of
chat on this item and I wonder if there is a USGBC position – I found no
reference to this in the CIR’s:</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do existing buildings
undergoing renovation require the four-point compass orientation
analysis?</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Calibri size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">Jeffrey,</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Calibri size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"> </SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Calibri size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">If the
existing building being renovated is pursuing LEED-NC rather than LEED-EB, then
it would indeed be required to undergo the specified analysis. This
analysis is used to establish the baseline for energy performance using the
ASHRAE standard. LEED doesn’t have any specific exemptions for existing
buildings in this requirement, but if ASHRAE has some kind of exemption, we will
honor that.</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Calibri size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"> </SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Calibri size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri"> </SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">So I guess the question
then becomes an interpretation of the Appendix G (Table G3.1 (f)) comment for
existing buildings. Rotate or not?</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue
size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">My take has always been
that new buildings have the option to consider orientation but existing
buildings cannot be re-oriented so rotating the model does not really prove
anything. </SPAN></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any 90.1 code committee
members or others out there have an interpretation?</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT
face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,</SPAN></FONT>
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
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[mailto:<st1:PersonName w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName>] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Neuhauser, Ken<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:31
PM<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>To:</SPAN></B> <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">BLDG-SIM@gard.com</st1:PersonName><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Cc:</SPAN></B> keith_lane@g-g-d.com<B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Subject:</SPAN></B> [BLDG-SIM] LEED Building
Orientation</SPAN></FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy
size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am not
the authority, Keith, but I believe that your interpretation (that existing
buildings do not get rotated in the baseline) is consistent with the intent of
Appendix G. In new construction, the decisions regarding building
orientation will affect performance and that performance should be measured
against the baseline (although, there are cases, such as a building that adjoins
buildings to either side, where rotating the baseline through all four
orientations does not make sense). If you’re improving an existing
building, the existing conditions of building enclosure components, including
orientation, are an appropriate baseline. When we apply Appendix G to
existing buildings, we have also found that “existing building envelopes”
sometimes needs to be parsed into existing building envelope components.
For example, in a mill rehab, the bearing walls may be serviceable and
appropriately modeled “as is” in the baseline, but missing windows or windows
that are clearly not serviceable we model as per the ASHRAE minimum
compliance.</SPAN></FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">You should note, also,
that an addendum to the standard has removed the provision in the table under
G3.1, 5c to distribute windows uniformly in horizontal bands across the four
orientations. That should make all of our lives easier.</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Regards,</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ken Neuhauser, M.Arch,
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><BR>Subject:</SPAN></B> [BLDG-SIM] LEED Building
Orientation</SPAN></FONT> <BR> <BR><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am modeling an existing building
for Energy & Atmosphere Credit 1: Optimize Energy Performance. In LEED and
table G3.1 No. 5(a) of ASHREA Standard 90.1-2004, it states that “the baseline
building performance shall be generated by simulating the building with its
actual orientation and again after rotating the entire building 90, 180, 270
degrees, then averaging the results”. However table G3.1 No. 5(f) of ASHREA
Standard 90.1-2004 states: “for existing building envelopes, the baseline
building design shall reflect existing conditions prior to any revisions that
are part of the scope of work being evaluated.” Would this mean that you do not
need to simulate the building for the four orientations? It just doesn’t seem to
make sense to simulate the building in such a manner if it is existing. I am new
energy modeling for LEED credit and sincerely appreciate any
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