<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Dear bldg-sim list subscribers:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12.800000190734863px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">First - I want to thank the entire group for the excellent and thoughtful responses to the questions I posted on September 4th. I received over 15 replies. I have attached a Word document with the topics of discussion and all replies cataloged. I will continue to do this and make the document available by email or will post it online where it can be used by everyone after the EMC.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Second - Based on the responses to the questions I hope most of you will be attending the conference and will actively participate in the group discussions and forums. We need more of these types of discussions on tools and processes to help create as large a knowledge base as possible on the subject so that those newer to the discipline of energy modeling do not have to make the many mistakes and realize the many current limitations of modeling pointed out so well by your replies to my questions while "on-the-job" or from the "school-of-hard-knocks" as many of us have done during our careers. One thing I was </span><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px">surprised</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> about in the responses was that only one or two people discussed any standard format or industry standard guidelines on modeling that they currently apply to their practice and no one really mentioned ASHRAE Guideline 14, ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals Chapter 19 (and others) or ASHRAE Standards 100 and 140 and others as well. These are all excellent resources from which to begin to create some kind of standardization and a replicable standard of care around the practice of energy modeling. </span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Third - I want to shameless put in a plug for the conference: I believe The </span></font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(31,73,125)">ASHRAE Energy Modeling Conference is meeting the industry’s current needs with regard to best practices for energy modeling. Here’s how:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> P</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">resenting the new software that is based on EnergyPlus (mentioned by several of you in your comments) from LBNL that is being launched the day prior to the conference,</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Presenting Dan Nall’s presentation to help engineers get a step up on architects in energy modeling in the design process,</span></li><li>
<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Future look at BIM’s and Energy Modeling’s Evolvement toward meeting the demand,</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Numerous case study examples of real world modeling challenges from almost 50 speakers and experts in the filed,</span></li>
<li><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Demonstrations from most of the major software tool developers and national labs doing work in this area, and</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Firing-line type sessions in a no-holds barred revelation of the capability of energy modeling tools and the workarounds used by many to fill gaps.</span></li>
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<font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks again for your great replies to my last set of questions. I hope to see many of you at the conference and get the opportunity to talk with you face-to-face and discuss the many </span><span style="font-size:14.399999618530273px">possibilities</span><span style="font-size:11pt"> to meet our current energy modeling needs and continue to improve the tools and processes we all need to serve our clients and industry well.</span></font></p>
<p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sincerely,</span></font></p><p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dennis Knight, P.E.</span></font></p>
<p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Chair ASHRAE EMC 2012 </span></font></p><p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span></font></p><p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Follow this link for more information about the conference: </span></font><a href="http://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-conferences/emc2012" style="background-color:transparent">http://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-conferences/emc2012</a></p>
<p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p><div><br></div>-- <br>M. Dennis Knight, P.E.<div>Founder & CEO</div><div><b>W</b>hole <b>B</b>uilding <b>S</b>ystems, LLC</div><div>P.O. Box 1845</div><div>Mt. Pleasant, SC 29465</div>
<div>Phone: 843-437-3647</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:dknight@wholebuildingsystems.com" target="_blank">dknight@wholebuildingsystems.com</a></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.wholebuildingsystems.com" target="_blank">www.wholebuildingsystems.com</a></div>
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