<div class="gmail_quote">Hello, <div>This is my first post to the {SIM} thread, so please forgive any repetition from previous posts that I may be unaware of.</div><div><br></div><div>I have a LEED compliance modeling job I am working on and have attempted to use the "Compliance analysis" tool in eQUEST.</div>
<div>The results where at first encouraging, as it created the building rotations as expected, but upon further analysis I realized that the baseline buildings that should be at ASHRAE 2007 where using about 30% more energy then a<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> building with has zero insulation, standard lighting watts/sqft, standard hot water use, standard process loads etc... </span></div>
<div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">The test building that is not at code energy costs are in the sixty thousand range, and the 0,90,180,270 average that should be at code is in the ninety thousand range. </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This %30 savings for the building that has zero insulation over the building that has been auto generated to be complaint with ASHRAE/LEED can not be correct. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">So I decided to not use the compliance analysis tool, in favor of creating my proposed building in the D&D wizard, then making a copy that I then specified ASHRAE compliance manually, and then copying my manually created compliant building for each rotation. Figuring that the "Export LEED Results CSV" would be a simple way to average my manually created rotations and compare them to my proposed building I used this feature. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">This worked great at first, until I updated my proposed building with the latest from the design team. Now when I </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Export LEED Results CSV it is outputting zero electrical costs for all of the buildings! </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The view simulation results show costs, and the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Export LEED Results CSV shows kWh usage, therms use, and costs for Natural Gas, but leaves all of the costs of electric at ZERO, also the feature in the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Export LEED Results CSV</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> there is a percentage cost savings that produces results that are obviously out of whack. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The first run I only had the</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">percentage cost savings</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> issue and figured I could work around the one bug, but now that it is saying that electricity is "free" I am very concerned with the accuracy of any of the LEED compliance tools in eQUEST. </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">I made a google spreadsheet that I can copy/paste the </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Export LEED Results CSV to for graphing of results. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Here is the link to my google spreadsheet with the results. </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkGqvJNjrYpldF9iTFlqb1F0dV9nRlpwSDJHbnBpcEE" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkGqvJNjrYpldF9iTFlqb1F0dV9nRlpwSDJHbnBpcEE</a></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I have read the PDF published on the subject, and am very curios if the compliance analysis tool is something that is known to work correctly? (I would be happy to find out I made some error, but can not find any such errors on my part) </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">If anyone has any insight it would be greatly appreciated. </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>
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<div><div>Jeremiah D. Crossett</div><div>Setanta Energy & Water</div></div><div>Phone: <a href="tel:503-688-8951" value="+15036888951" target="_blank">503-688-8951</a></div><div>Email: <span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="mailto:jeremiah@setnrgh2o.com" style="color:rgb(0,0,204)" target="_blank">jeremiah@setnrgh2o.com</a></span></div>
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</font></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div>Jeremiah D. Crossett</div><div>Setanta Energy & Water</div></div><div>Phone: <a href="tel:503-688-8951" value="+15036888951" target="_blank">503-688-8951</a></div>
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