I can confirm this as well (that you should just ballpark the number). Try to consider this from a LEED reviewer's point of view tho; they are really looking to see if you changed any value abnormally. I think the original intent was "Major defaults overridden". So, for instance, if you changed default load methodologies, or something that most users do not change, that is what they want to know about. However, if many people are putting hundreds of defaults overridden, this may become what the LEED reviewer expects to see anyway.<div>
<br></div><div>I have to say the reviewers have gotten pretty savvy over the last few years and most of them probably see that you are using eQUEST, and then they understand (because eQUEST has so many defaults, by it's nature of being a fast simulation tool). Remember that some reviewers are more familiar with certain software, so if they ask, it's likely that they aren't too familiar with eQUEST, and you need to explain that eQUEST has defaults for nearly every value (though in my experience, eQUEST is the most well-known by LEED reviewers).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Dakota Kelley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dakotak@teliospc.com">dakotak@teliospc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Yes, I’d echo Bill’s advice here. Estimate a reasonable number and run with it – like the Target Finder score, this information is used as a soft check for the model’s “reasonableness”, but it also depends on the modeling software. I’ve had one question before about why so many defaults were overridden, and my response was basically “you can’t incorporate Appx G or the proposed design in eQUEST without overriding many, many defaults” (the project was accepted).</span></p>
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</div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Michael,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">My suggestion – don’t waste time on “defaults overridden”. You can’t leave it blank – the online template won’t let you. For my first submission, I put “1776” and “2008” (years – I was feeling patriotic), but the reviewer asked why I changed so many defaults. So I lowered it closer to zero. Try putting numbers less than 20 and change them if your reviewer asks about it.</span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Good Morning All,</p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I know this has come up in the past and I have seen several responses from going through and counting all of the schedules to just estimating. Regardless of how you have determined this value has anyone then included a description of how this was done in their narrative, or has anyone ever gotten any questions from their reviewer about how the number was tabulated? Also has anyone ever left it blank as an unquantifiable number? I think I could spend days trying to count every default of my model and still be off by hundreds.</p>
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