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This is a topic of some interest to me for reasons both personal and
technical. <br>
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On a personal level, I was involved in the original creation of
these Commercial Reference Buildings, which were then known as <br>
DOE's Benchmark Commercial Buildings, back in 2005 - 2007. Since my
knowledge base, especially for building models, <br>
has been in DOE-2, I created the first set of these building models
in DOE-2.1E, which I then converted to EnergyPlus using a<br>
doe2ep (DOE-2 to EnergyPlus) program that I was also working on at
the time. Both sets of files were provided to DOE, NREL,<br>
and PNNL at the time of my retirement from LBNL in June 2007. NREL
has continued to work on these building models, including<br>
adding to or substituting new ones, so I have no idea how correlated
are my original prototypes to those now on NREL's web site.<br>
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For those interested, the building models that I worked on in both
DOE-2.1E and EnergyPlus (Version 2.2!) are available on my<br>
Web site at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://whiteboxtechnologies.com/download_07_DOE_prototype_files.htm">http://whiteboxtechnologies.com/download_07_DOE_prototype_files.htm</a><br>
However, please keep in mind the caveat mentioned earlier, since I
have not touched these files since 2007.<br>
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On a technical level, I think it would be a valuable contribution to
the simulation community to have the DOE Reference Buildings <br>
available for other simulation platforms besides EnergyPlus, in
particular for eQUEST/DOE-2.2. I have been contacted by numerous<br>
people over the past four years expressing the same interest, and I
know of at least three efforts (not including Mark's :-) ) that are<br>
trying to do this, i.e., recode the DOE Reference Buildings for
eQUEST. However, these have remained individual or university
efforts,<br>
whereas I think what's needed is a more sustained and vetted effort
that would include harmonizing the inputs with EnergyPlus, <br>
developing corresponding inputs where harmonization is impossible,
as well as comparing the results to each other as well as to<br>
measured data. If these Reference Buildings are to be the industry
default or starting point for building energy modeling, let's make<br>
them as widely usable and robust as possible.<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
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On 1/19/2012 1:10 PM, Campion Mark wrote:
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<p><span>I do not believe they exist in eQUEST. If they do, I
would love to know since I spend many hours inputting them
into eQUEST! </span></p>
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<p><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Aleka Pappas<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 19, 2012 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Field, Kristin<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] Commercial Reference Building
Models in DOE2? </span></p>
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<p><span>Does anyone know if the DOE Commercial Reference
Building models exist anywhere in DOE2/ eQuest in addition
to EnergyPlus?</span><br>
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Thanks<br>
Aleka </p>
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<b><span>Aleka Pappas, P.E., LEED AP</span></b> </p>
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