[Equest-users] [Bldg-sim] How to mirror a building in eQUEST

[Xiangjin Yang via Equest-users]

Hello All,
Thanks for your help. Our energy modelling team got a heated discussion and come out two possible “easier” solutions:


1.     Rotate the building by 180 deg and change the Latitude from north to south – does not work, since the program does not take this revised Latitude in the simulation. The weather file needs to be modified to mirror the location of the building from northern hemisphere to south hemisphere. I will pull out the weather file to see how complicated it is.

2.     Edit azimuth values for all exposures in .inp files or in parametric run. The geometry is still the same, but the exposures have been changed.  But the problem is the azimuth values are relative to origin of each zone, not absolute. It will be a lot of work to flip the exposures 180 deg by checking what is the original azimuth values in the model. Say if the building is mirrored on an north-south axis, the north is still north, but east becomes west.  So the east and west exposures need to be edited, while the north and south exposures can be left untouched.


I am still on my way to solve it out completely. But these two approaches may give some hints to others who encounter the same situation. At the same time, you are always welcome to put your comments and suggestions.

Regards,


Xiangjin Yang Ph.D., P.Eng., LEED AP BD+C
MCW Energy Modelling Centre of Excellence
Building Simulation Engineer

MCW Consultants Ltd. <http://www.mcw.com>
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