<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jim,<div class="">Thanks for your response;</div><div class="">Actually the apartment has many thermostatic controllers, one thermostat per room, but my interoperation for the ASHRAE 90.1 is that thermal block could combine more than one thermal zone, do you agree?</div><div class="">What do you think.</div><div class="">Thanks;</div><div class="">Sherif<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 26, 2015, at 2:39 AM, Jim Dirkes <<a href="mailto:jim@buildingperformanceteam.com" class="">jim@buildingperformanceteam.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#b45f06">If an apartment has a single thermostat, then it makes no sense to model it as more than one zone - because it IS a single zone.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Julien Marrec <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:julien.marrec@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">julien.marrec@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Is this a LEED project?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Long story short, no I don't think this is a reasonable comment.</div><div class="">One block per apartment is common practice, and you can merge block if their share a similar orientation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Julien<br class=""><br class="">Envoyé de mon iPhone</div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class="">Le 25 oct. 2015 à 13:01, Sherif Farag <<a href="mailto:sherif.sabr@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">sherif.sabr@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:HelveticaNeue" class="">Dear Modellers;</span><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue" class=""><br class=""><div class="">I am modelled a multifamily residential building with thermal blocks following ASHRAE 90.1:2007 Table G3.1 <u class="">item 9</u>. but I received a comment from the reviewer asking me to follow Table G3.1 <u class="">item 7a</u> and justified the comment because the living areas and bedroom areas having different occupancy profiles, he also suggested that (to simplify the profiles) the occupants are in the living space from 1800hrs to 2400hrs and in the bedroom spaces 0000hrs to 0800hrs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is this a reasonable comment?</div><div class="">Did anybody here had a similar experience?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will appreciate your feedback & recommendations.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks & Regards; </div><div class=""><div class=""> </div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p style="direction:ltr" class=""><a name="150a10a23528cf6e_SafeHtmlFilter__MailAutoSig" class=""><b class="">Sherif Farag</b></a></p><p style="direction:ltr" class=""><b class="">Sustainability Consultant</b></p><p style="direction:ltr" class="">P.O. Box: 127842</p><p style="direction:ltr" class="">Abu Dhabi, UAE</p><p style="direction:ltr" class="">M: <a href="tel:%2B971%2055%20199%200022" value="+971551990022" target="_blank" class="">+971 55 199 0022</a> | E: <a href="mailto:sherif.sabr@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">sherif.sabr@gmail.com</a> | Skype ID: sherif.farag9</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">Bldg-sim mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org</a></span><br class=""><span class="">To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG" target="_blank" class="">BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">
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