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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A meeting has been scheduled to discuss the proposed Standard SPC 229: Protocols for Evaluating Ruleset Implementation in Building Performance Modeling Software<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Details about the meeting can be found
<a href="https://events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Details/957686">here</a>. A short summary of the proposed standard along with the approved TPS have been provided below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 4<sup>th</sup> from 1 PM to 5 PM EST at
<span style="color:#444444">Hilton Orlando, Room- Key Largo B<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This will be an informal meeting as the committee membership has not been approved by ASHRAE yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The meeting agenda would include an update on the membership applications received, the TPS as approved by ASHRAE and discussions around the key components of the proposed standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">Summary:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">The standard would apply to software tools that implement rulesets (like Standard 90.1 Appendix G) and can automatically generate the baseline building energy model
based on the user’s building energy model. This transformation process is complex and largely dependent on interpretation of code requirements. ASHRAE Standard 140 tests some of the physics involved in building energy modeling but does not include any standard
method for testing the implementation of the rulesets that are so fundamental to the compliance process. The intent of this standard is to provide definitions, tests, conformance conditions, reporting, data schema and other requirements for testing and verifying
building energy modeling software that performs compliance analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">TPS:
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">(Available over
<a href="https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=1bc3aa6a-477694a5-1bc3807f-0cc47adc5e60-2edf32310aadd863&q=1&e=7b8d0b34-66a1-4500-bcf8-d6d3acdf5920&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ashrae.org%2Ftechnical-resources%2Fstandards-and-guidelines%2Ftitles-purposes-and-scopes">
here</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">SPC 229P – Proposed Standard</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040"> Authorized November 15, 2019</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">Title:</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;font-weight:normal">
Protocols for Evaluating Ruleset Implementation in Building Performance Modeling Software</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">PURPOSE: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This standard establishes tests and acceptance criteria for implementation of rulesets (e.g., modeling
rules) and related reporting in building performance modeling software.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#404040;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SCOPE:</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
2.1 This standard applies to building performance modeling software that implements rulesets.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2.2 </span></strong>This standard applies to rulesets associated with new or existing buildings and their systems, system controls, their sites, and other aspects of buildings described by the ruleset implementation
being evaluated.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">Meetings so far:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040">A small group, including members of TC 4.7 (Energy Calculations), TC 7.6 (Building Energy Performance) and SSPC 140 (Standard Method of Test for the Evaluation
of Building Energy Analysis Computer Programs) met several times earlier this year to define the TPS. TC 4.7 voted to approve the TPS at the ASHRAE Summer meeting in Kansas City and TC 7.6 also voted to show their support for the development of this standard.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#D47500">__________________________________________________</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<b><span style="color:black">Supriya Goel</span></b><br>
<span style="color:black">Energy Research Engineer</span><br>
<span style="color:black">Building Energy Regulatory Analysis</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<span style="color:black;background:white">970 Baker Street<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">San Francisco, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tel: 503-227-7766</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
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<span style="color:black">Supriya.Goel@pnnl.gov</span> <br>
<span style="color:#D47500">www.pnl.gov</span> <span style="color:black;background:white">
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