[Equest-users] Zones with different roof height on same floor

[equest user]

Yeah Daric. I completely get your point.



Thanks,

Tejas

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 2:13 AM, Daric Adair <
Daric.Adair at hendersonengineers.com> wrote:

> John’s suggestion is valid & is straightforward. I believe with zones in
> adjacent shells they will need to modified from ‘adiabatic’ interior walls
> to having proper adjacencies for internal heat transfer. But it works.
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> Another approach would be to place all zones in a single shell at the
> lower/predominate roof height. Ensure that the zone boarder aligns with the
> higher roof area. Blue lines in 1st attachment. Then in detailed mode the
> roof can be raised to the higher/proper height. This will stretch the
> interior walls up though, so those will need to be set back down to their
> original height (reduce their ‘HEIGHT’,  so they stay the height of the
> blue lines). The new exterior walls can be created, assigned to the proper
> ‘LOCATION’  will put them in the right plan location (second image,
> highlighting). Then increase the ‘Z’ value to the lower roof height and
> decrease their ‘Height’ to be just the bump up height. Red lines in 1st
> attachment.
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> This will allow a single shell, keep adjacent heat transfer, and allow
> addition of these bump up walls.
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> Thanks,
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> *DARIC R ADAIR* PE, CEM, BEMP
> Mechanical Engineer, Energy Analyst
>
> *Henderson Engineers*
> daric.adair at hendersonengineers.com
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> *Licensed in* KS
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> *From:* John Aulbach <jra_sac at yahoo.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, July 30, 2018 3:16 PM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org; equest user <
> equestuser00 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Zones with different roof height on same
> floor
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> A quickie from me. Make each zone a different shell. Then, I believe, you
> can do your different roof heights. Detail Edit Mode is best. Sorry i do
> not have time to create an example.
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> John R. Aulbach, PE
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> On Monday, July 30, 2018, 3:43:05 AM PDT, equest user via Equest-users <
> equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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> Hi all Modelers,
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> This time I have come across a single floor building which has zones with
> different height. I have attached a roughly drawn elevation as an example
> (Which is not needed :/) . Can any1 guide me how to model such case as
> equest allows you to take same height for single floor.
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> Thanks,
>
> Tejas
>
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