[Equest-users] Building Square Footage

[Rob Hudson]

That is the same logic i went through, and double checking my plenum zones
have shown that they in fact are all unconditioned or plenum.  I can send
out the .inp file or the output reports if people have time to check it
out.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Gaurav Mehta <gmehta75 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Rob/ Pasha,
>
> The kBtu/SF on the BEPS Report and $/SF on ES-D report use the conditioned
> floor area. Please see the LS-C report that shows the conditioned floor area
> you are modeling.
>
> LV-B report does show all the spaces including unconditioned spaces
> and plenums, but the total area is not used in the summary report.
>
> Without looking at your model, I can only make a guess that you might be
> modeling the Plenum zones as 'Conditioned'. By the numbers that you have
> provided:
>
> 9,500 SF x( 3 [floors] + 3 [plenums] ) = 57,000 SF subtract any
> unconditioned spaces and the answer would be ~ 50,000 SF
>
> Please check your inputs for plenum zones under both 'Spaces' and 'Zones'
> and in both, the 'Zone Type' input should either be 'Unconditioned' or
> 'Plenum'.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gaurav Mehta
> Sustainable Building Analyst
> Stantec
>
>  *From:* Pasha Korber-Gonzalez <pasha.pkconsulting at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 15, 2010 13:40
> *To:* Rob Hudson <rdh4176 at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Building Square Footage
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> this is a good question and important to understand about how inputs are
> translated to DOE & reported in the output.
>
> Yes you are right that the summary is accounting for the floor area of the
> unconditioned spaces as well and the plenum spaces.  If you look at report
> LV-B, summary of spaces in your project you will find the info you are
> looking for.
>
> This report is a listing of all the spaces (or thermal zones) in the
> project.  Theis listing incudes both conditioned spaces as well as
> unconditioned spaces and plenums.  In reviewing this report, pay special
> attention to the column labeled "space floor multiplier".  The total area
> and volume for each space is this value times the area and volume listed in
> the last two columns.  The building totals row includes the effect of these
> multipliers, but the area includes plenums and unconditioned spaces as
> well.
>
> Pasha
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Rob Hudson <rdh4176 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This seems like a silly question, but i would like some input regardless.
>> My building has three floors, each about 9,500 square feet.  However, the
>> looking at the BEPU and other reports are showing a total utility cost of
>> 110632$ and a $/sqft of 2.25.  this shows a sqft of about 50,000 for the
>> building.  Is this something that i should disregard or is it relevant?  I
>> have also modeled the unconditioned space above each room as a separate
>> space.  Could the program be combining this plenum space into the sqft of
>> the entire building?  Is this plenum sqft affecting the output of the
>> reports?  any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Rob Hudson
>>
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