[Equest-users] eQuest Training & Peer Reviews

Wed Jan 12 18:34:31 PST 2011

Word to the wise.  Before you engage anyone to provide eQuest training I suggest 
you look up that person's responses to forum questions and review the comments 
others make to those answers.  There are some members that advertise themselves 
as experts, but their knowledge of eQuest, LEED and ASHRAE 90.1 is minimal.

While I do not offer training, I do offer peer reviews of eQuest projects.  I 
can provide references, upon request from projects in North America and the 
Middle East.  Please fell free to contact me via my personal e-mail.

Thank you,

Paul Diglio

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From: Carol Gardner <cmg750 at gmail.com>
To: eQUEST Users List <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>; 
bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Sent: Wed, January 12, 2011 8:31:00 PM
Subject: [Equest-users] Intermediate and Advanced Level eQUEST courses

Hi Everyone,
Some of you may know, and some may not, that I have moved from Portland to 
Vancouver BC, and accepted a job at Cobalt Engineering. My position here is 
Senior Energy Analyst and my job duties will remain much the same as they always 
were.
I have been offering eQUEST training to clients with a wide variety of 
experience levels for some time now.  I have never felt comfortable with blatant 
advertising on the list-serv before, so I tend to answer requests for training 
off-line.  At this point in time, however, I don’t think it serves the list-serv 
to not provide this information, and I encourage others to do so too.
Lately, most of what I have been doing are 1-on-1 remote and onsite training and 
small group onsite training sessions.  I have used GoToMeeting successfully for 
the remote training. In the past, I have also trained larger groups and am still 
willing to continue to provide that service, too. Up until now, I have traveled 
to the client to provide that training. At Cobalt, however, we have lovely 
meeting rooms so if clients wanted to come to Vancouver, BC, they would be 
welcome.
By virtue of training small groups of people, the topics we cover are generally 
customized to meet the client’s needs. I do not have a set agenda of items to 
cover; instead we use an iterative process with the client to develop an agenda 
of topics specifically for them. These topics can range from how and when to 
create a new shell, how to best use the wizards and detailed edit modes, how to 
evaluate defaults, how to create custom curves, how to read and work in the 
building description language (BDL) found in the input file, how to select 
reports pertinent to a project and how to read them, and how to use the 
refrigeration commands.
Our training fees are roughly equivalent to the fees I have seen posted online 
and that I have personally paid other trainers to train me. I highly recommend 
that you all attend an eQUEST training given by Marlin Addison and Steve Gates 
at least once. No one knows eQUEST better than them. I also am quite sure that 
the training at the Energy Center of Wisconsin are good, and based on her 
patient and thorough answers to your questions online, I am sure that training 
provided by Pasha Korber Gonzalez would also be excellent. Sorry to leave others 
out, I just don’t have experience with them.
If any of you want additional information from me, please feel free to email me 
at cgardner at cobaltengineering.com, cmg750 at gmail.com, or call me at (604) 
687-1800, extension 254.

Best, 
Carol Gardner PE

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