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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I have to admit, nowadays I manage a team, and have not been doing hands-on modeling for a while. Getting rusty.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">That being said, I have always enjoyed perusing this forum, and would love to see it get active again. The peer mentoring thing cannot be overstated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Happy New year everyone. May 2025 bring good things!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt;background:white">Vikram Sami, AIA, LEED AP, BEMP</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:-.15pt;background:white">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> Bldg-sim <bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Yates via Bldg-sim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 6, 2025 3:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'David S Eldridge' <deldridge@grummanbutkus.com>; bldg-sim@onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] go-to forum for LEED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps we’re all working a lot harder and have little time for frivolous forum posting!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’m happy to continue on this forum. I posted on here in September last year and it was very helpful - many thanks to those who responded. I thought that there might be a forum out there that’s more active for this subject,
specifically. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There’s a need for something general such as bldg-sim. A new generation of modellers is coming through, and they seem to be making all the same mistakes that we made. They should be moving on to bigger and better things!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’ve benefited of being able to get one-to-one mentoring more recently. This has been relatively informal (e.g., paying with Paypal) but has helped me get up to speed in areas that I either have no experience, or am rusty
in. I’m lucky to have the network to do this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps bldg-sim is a good B2B place to seek out (informally paid) mentoring relationships for those subjects that are niche to us, but everyday for other professionals?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Cheers/ Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> David S Eldridge <<a href="mailto:deldridge@grummanbutkus.com">deldridge@grummanbutkus.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 January 2025 18:35<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:chris.malcolm.yates@gmail.com">chris.malcolm.yates@gmail.com</a>;
<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Bldg-sim] go-to forum for LEED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m all for this forum in general, but seems to be dwindling.
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<p class="MsoNormal">There was also a discord server setup by Allen Mei. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For LEED specific questions there is also the subscription service for LEEDuser.com that I still use from time to time.
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<p class="MsoNormal">David<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"> Bldg-sim <<a href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Yates via Bldg-sim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 3, 2025 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@onebuilding.org">bldg-sim@onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] go-to forum for LEED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Happy new year bldg-sim’rs! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I’ve bagged the first post of 2025 </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We used discuss a lot of 90.1 and LEED on this forum, but it seems that this isn’t the hottest place on the subject anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Can anybody make any recommendations? Do I join the eQuest group, even though I don’t use eQuest!? Or, do I finally log into my dormant unmet hours account?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Thank you in advance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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