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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pasha,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You are absolutely correct. When I started this journey I was trying to use “common sense design,” which turns out not to be as common sense as one would think.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As a side note for the project I’m working on does anyone know the ASHRAE watt/ft2 count for a car dealership? Is it the 1.5 or 0.9, I hear it all kinds of ways and I’d like to get some other opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>PETER HILLERMANN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><a href="mailto:peterh@westallarchitects.com">peterh@westallarchitects.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:75%'><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Md","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>westall</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:4.0pt;line-height:75%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Md","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>architects</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>3404 pierce drive<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>chamblee, georgia 30341<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>o 770.458.4113<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>f 770.458.5352<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>c 678.898.2936<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Std Bk","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>westallarchitects.com</span><span style='color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=160 height=87 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CB07D2.43A31940" alt=e-signature><img border=0 width=92 height=90 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.gif@01CB07D2.43A31940" alt=USGBC-Logo><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Pasha Korber-Gonzalez [mailto:pasha.pkconsulting@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:38 PM<br><b>To:</b> Peter Hillermann<br><b>Cc:</b> Nick Caton; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] U-Values<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Peter et al,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick said what I was going to say! I'm guessing at this point that your climate is fairly warm (i.e. Georgia climate) and that the increased insul is like Nick stated (over-insulating) for the cooling aspect of your model.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I had a project once on a college campus in Canada where the design team did such a good job at thier ECM design stratagies that they over-designed the building and moved the building characteristics from being a heating dominated cimate building to being cooing dominated. We (as the sim team) made the recommendations that they actually remove thier ventilation heat recovery systems (completely) and lessen the "thightness" of the envelope design so that the building could experience some losses through the skin and balance out the energy use of the building operations. This was the first time I've had to recommend to "scale back" on the design strategies. (FYI-the HVAC was tied to a geothermal loop that needed to have more balanced energy use for it's proper operation. With too much cooling to the ground the geothermal system was becoming unbalanced. For the real simulation-techies, we then integrated our simulations with TRNSYS to replicate the increasing ground temps that would be resultant if the building energy was not better balanced in the design to work with the geothermal system & well field.)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Just like for so many of us when this light bulb goes on we can really see the value of energy simulation for aiding design choices and this is when energy modeling is actually FUN! :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>pasha<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Peter Hillermann <<a href="mailto:e190984026@exchange.1and1.com">e190984026@exchange.1and1.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>To my friends on the list,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Those explanations have made perfect sense. Nick this too is the reason I am absolutely enjoying it. I was just telling my boss how your perception of design changes when you introduce what could actually be going on. I love the analogy Nick posted about trapping heat in the summer. It makes perfect sense because the more you insulate a building the better it is at NOT transmitting heat energy. So you put 1 piece of storefront on your building that introduces radiant heat to your floor and you’re cooking the inside or like you said one piece of equipment generating enough heat and it won’t let it escape.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks Nick light bulb just went off.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>PETER HILLERMANN</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=DE style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><a href="mailto:peterh@westallarchitects.com" target="_blank">peterh@westallarchitects.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:75%'><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>westall</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.0pt;line-height:75%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:75%;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>architects</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>3404 pierce drive</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>chamblee, georgia 30341</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>o 770.458.4113</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>f 770.458.5352</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'>c 678.898.2936</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ITC Avant Garde Gothic Demi","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:1.0pt'><a href="http://westallarchitects.com/" target="_blank">westallarchitects.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> Nick Caton [mailto:<a href="mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com" target="_blank">ncaton@smithboucher.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:03 PM<br><b>To:</b> Peter Hillermann; <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] U-Values</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Peter,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>This is the exact reason I’ve come to really enjoy energy modeling. Anytime you get results that you don’t expect, whether your preconceptions are right or wrong, you’re bound to learn something – sometime profound!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>You must make the call on whether this makes sense ultimately, but there are probably reasonable explanations for what you’re seeing. It would help us help you if you shared more, like what climate the building is in, what systems you’re using… etc. You will want to come up with explanations, then investigate the model results to see if that syncs with the behavior modeled.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#1F497D'>As a start: R-27 is a high wall value – Note that walls/roofs can be both over- and under-insulated. Likely, you’re seeing gas savings from losing less heat in the winter and thus having less heating load, while simultaneously trapping heat inside your building during the cooling months, increasing your cooling equipment loads. 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(I am working in detail mode with INP file) When I make my baseline wall value R-13 and change it in my run to R-27 my heating (MBTU) load goes down by 4% however my electric rate (kWh) goes up 1%. I don’t really understand because I thought both would have gone down. 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