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class=259030515-24092009>eQuesters,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Part 1b of table 3.1 of ASHRAE 90.1 (2004) appendix G (which, for the moment,
I'm assuming is unchanged in the 2007 edition that we're about to order) says,
"All conditioned spaces in the proposed design shall be simulated as being both
heated and cooled even if no heating or cooling system is to be
installed..."</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Most of my conditioned spaces have no heating equipment (HEAT-SOURCE =
NONE, ZONE-HEAT-SOURCE = NONE, BASEBOARD-SOURCE = NONE), so I would rather
not fabricate some phony heating equipment for those spaces for the
bureaucratic purpose of making the USGBC reviewer happy. When I run
the simulation, the cooling load is significant during every month of the
year. Also, I note that the building zoning does not provide for
simultaneous perimeter heating and inner-zone cooling. This is
mid-southern Florida, after all. While I know that the HDD will require
heating somewhere (no, I'm not the designer), the simulated building performance
does not show that overall heating actually occurs. Of course,
the two zones that do have actual heating equipment I'm happy to model as
having actual heating equipment.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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Does anyone know, is showing a significant simulated cooling load throughout
every month of the year sufficient to satisfy the USGBC reviewer without
modeling a phony heating system?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=259030515-24092009>Lars Fetzek,
EI</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=259030515-24092009>Phoenix Engineering
Group</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=259030515-24092009>Tampa,
Florida</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>