[Equest-users] Baseline or Proposed? Chicken or the egg?

[Sami, Vikram]

It depends.

Typically when I use a model for design assistance there is no proposed case - I start off with a baseline. That helps identify potential strategies that will eventually make up the proposed building.

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Subject: [Equest-users] Baseline or Proposed? Chicken or the egg?

Out of curiosity do you build your proposed model first or your baseline model first?


I build my proposed model first.  This is the way that I was taught and the way I learned that makes sense to me in terms of "backing-off" the performance values to that equal of the baseline values.  Or in the case of different types of HVAC systems I prefer to build the proposed model first and then do a "save as" to a baseline file to make all the appropriate baseline input adjustments.  This just seems most efficient for my modeling approach.

What's your approach?

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