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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>The lexicon keeps popping up… <a href="https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/authoring-tools/terminology">https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/authoring-tools/terminology</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Bigger and even better! This gives numerous concise explanations on a range of items. It is also helpful for non US-based English speakers to understand <i>some</i> of the terminology when it comes to LEED. It’s not energy model focused, but can be helpful. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>There are many things that are implicitly understood by US-based modellers that can wrong foot the unwary. For example, I was naïve to the fact that the word “system” related typically to airside components, or the expression “common pipe” translated to “low loss header” or “decoupler”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'>Cheers/ Chris<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> chris.malcolm.yates@gmail.com <chris.malcolm.yates@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> 29 April 2020 22:41<br><b>To:</b> Bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> ASHRAE lexicon is back<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gentlemen and ladies,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It appears that, after a period of absence, the ASHRAE terminology website (AKA Lexicon) has returned and is available at the following location: <a href="https://xp20.ashrae.org/terminology/">https://xp20.ashrae.org/terminology/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please enjoy its sumptuous exposition of the language of HVAC!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chris<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - </i>Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost <i><o:p></o:p></i></p></div></body></html>