<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
.shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style><![endif]--><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Consolas;
panose-1:2 11 6 9 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
pre
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";}
span.HTMLPreformattedChar
{mso-style-name:"HTML Preformatted Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"HTML Preformatted";
font-family:Consolas;}
p.msonormal0, li.msonormal0, div.msonormal0
{mso-style-name:msonormal;
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-margin-top-alt:auto;
margin-right:0in;
mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;}
span.EmailStyle21
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
span.EmailStyle22
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi Holly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This is kind of the inverse query, but very recently I had an exchange over unmethours.com with an individual trying to convert a project’s geometries from e+ to doe 2.1e:
<a href="https://unmethours.com/question/20238/doe21e-geometric-input/">https://unmethours.com/question/20238/doe21e-geometric-input/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Therein I touched on SIMEB. Among other things, I understand SIMEB is one path to get from e+ to doe2 and vice versa, though you may need to re-specify systems and zonal
associations along the way. I have had a single “rocky” experience converting a project from e+ to doe2 (for the previous lowdown showdown challenge), but I’d largely chalk those difficulties up to not reading the manual. On that first try I was able to
get spaces, zones, and MOST geometries across correctly alongside “placeholder” systems… some heavy QC & redevelopment would have been necessary if I pushed further down that path. Would personally be interested to explore the capabilities of SIMEB further
in the future… and I haven’t tried the inverse conversion just yet (might make for an easier/smoother first effort!).
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I also singled out Joe as the fellow behind
<a href="http://www.drawbdl.com/">http://www.drawbdl.com/</a> . DrawBDL is a for-cost solution which is probably of interest for your intended workflow, but you’ll need to confirm with Joe or other DrawBDL endusers the present extents of what it can presently
convert and from which versions of doe2. I’m not for example certain of how well DrawBDL handles doe 2.2/2.3 geometries relative to 2.1E, or how far beyond geometries DrawBDL extends.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">If it turns out you do have a “budget” for this conversion process, I understand over the years Joe also has developed a number of unpublished scripts which can automate some/lots
of the process (depending on the systems & components involved) and it may be possible to contract him on a project-by-project basis to get a larger fraction of the conversion effort done for you. You’ll have to ask him nicely ;-).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To address Jim’s suggestion: the only commercially available interoperability path I recall between eQUEST/doe2 and a gbXML schema is/was via GBS … not sure where that stands
today, as it has been some time since this was of interest for my projects. Maybe someone from Autodesk can comment?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">~Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A7A46"><img border="0" width="722" height="9" style="width:7.5208in;height:.0937in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D222F6.1F4DFE70" alt="cid:image001.png@01D222F6.1F4DFE70"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3A7A46">Nick Caton, P.E., BEMP</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3A7A46"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="724" style="width:543.0pt;border-collapse:collapse">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="230" valign="top" style="width:172.3pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469"> Senior Energy Engineer</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469"> Energy and Sustainability Services</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469"> Schneider Electric</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="291" valign="top" style="width:218.3pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#57B069">D </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469">913.564.6361
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#57B069">M </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469">785.410.3317
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#57B069">E </span><a href="mailto:nicholas.caton@schneider-electric.com"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469">nicholas.caton@schneider-electric.com</span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#57B069">F </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469">913.564.6380</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
<td width="203" valign="top" style="width:152.4pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#626469">15200 Santa Fe Trail Drive<br>
Suite 204<br>
Lenexa, KS 66219<br>
United States</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:4.0pt">
<td width="724" colspan="3" valign="top" style="width:543.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:4.0pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:4.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3A7A46"><img border="0" width="722" height="49" style="width:7.5208in;height:.5104in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.png@01D222F6.1F4DFE70" alt="cid:image001.png@01D189AB.58634A10"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#3A7A46"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Bldg-sim [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Fountain via Bldg-sim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 08, 2016 7:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Samuelson, Holly Wasilowski <hsamuelson@gsd.harvard.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] rebuilding eQuest model in EnergyPlus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">There is a tool from Quebec called SimEB that is cross platform between DOE-2.1, DOE-2.2 and EnergyPlus. Not sure if it will import an .inp but it may
be worth some investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I believe the link is
</span><a href="http://www.simeb.ca"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.simeb.ca</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" style="width:100.0%;background:white;border-spacing:0px">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt;font-size:initial;text-align:initial">
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Jim Dirkes via Bldg-sim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sent:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Friday, October 7, 2016 4:40 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">To:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Samuelson, Holly Wasilowski<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Reply To:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Jim Dirkes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Cc:
</span></b><a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Subject:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Re: [Bldg-sim] rebuilding eQuest model in EnergyPlus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div id="_originalContent">
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#B45F06">Holly,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#B45F06">If you can export gbXML from eQuest, I know DesignBuilder can import that format as well as a number of others ... but I've never done it, so I don't know how
much detail comes with it :(<o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Samuelson, Holly Wasilowski via Bldg-sim <<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
<div>
<div>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Do you have any time-saving advice or tips for recreating an eQuest model in EnergyPlus? (We would like to keep most of the geometry, zoning, scheduling, and other inputs as similar as possible,
and then be able to take advantage of some E+ functionality.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Thank you in advance for any help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Warmly, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Holly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#FF6600">Holly W. Samuelson, DDes | LEED | Registered Architect</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#999999">Assistant Professor Harvard Graduate School of Design</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Bldg-sim mailing list<br>
<a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org" target="_blank">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org</a><br>
To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">
BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></p>
</blockquote>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<br clear="all">
<o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal">James V Dirkes II, PE, BEMP, LEED AP<br>
CEO/President<br>
The Building Performance Team Inc.<br>
1631 Acacia Dr, GR, Mi 49504<br>
<br>
Direct: 616.450.8653<br>
<a href="mailto:jim@buildingperformanceteam.com" target="_blank">jim@buildingperformanceteam.com</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://buildingperformanceteam.com" target="_blank">Website </a>l <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jim-dirkes/7/444/413" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> |
<a href="http://buildingperformanceteam.com/bpt-insights-blog/item/73-modeled-performance-isn-t-actual-performance" target="_blank">
May 2016 ASHRAE Journal article on energy modeling</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">…an open mind is not an end in itself but rather is like an open mouth, designed to bite down on something solid and nourishing</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br>
<br>
______________________________________________________________________<br>
This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.<br>
______________________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade="" style="color:#8091A5; ">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:gray">This message was scanned by Exchange Online Protection Services.
</span>
<hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade="" style="color:#8091A5; ">
</body>
</html>