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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='color:#1F497D'>I believe so. I had one space defined as an atrium, i.e. no plenum, within a shell whose remaining spaces had plenums.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Brad Huff, E.I.T., LEED Green Associate, Mechanical Engineer</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I BVH Integrated Services I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>860.286.9171 tel </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 860.242.0236 fax</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 50 Griffin Road South, Bloomfield CT 06002 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I <a href="http://www.bvhis.com/" title="http://www.bvhis.com/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>.bvhis.com</span></a> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>twitter.com/bvhis</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I Hartford Boston </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> Nick Caton [mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:35 PM<br><b>To:</b> Brad L. Huff; Umesh Atre; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’ve known the system-per-zone/other entry to affect this behavior, so is the takeaway here that varying ceiling heights will also cause the wizards to create per-zone plenums?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>~Nick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=119 height=37 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC8DA3.6880A9F0" alt="cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB"></span><b><span style='font-family:"Stylus BT","sans-serif";color:#2D4D5E'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Stylus BT","sans-serif";color:#2D4D5E'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Stylus BT","sans-serif";color:#2D4D5E'>NICK CATON, P.E.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#CC9900'>SENIOR ENGINEER<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;color:#CC9900'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>Smith & Boucher Engineers</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#CC9900'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>25501 west valley parkway, suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>olathe, ks 66061<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>direct 913.344.0036<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#2D4D5E'>fax 913.345.0617<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="www.smithboucher.com" title="blocked::www.smithboucher.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.smithboucher.com</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'> </span></u><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brad L. Huff<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Umesh Atre'; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That worked, thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Brad Huff, E.I.T., LEED Green Associate, Mechanical Engineer</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I BVH Integrated Services I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>860.286.9171 tel </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 860.242.0236 fax</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 50 Griffin Road South, Bloomfield CT 06002 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I <a href="http://www.bvhis.com/" title="http://www.bvhis.com/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>.bvhis.com</span></a> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>twitter.com/bvhis</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I Hartford Boston </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><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"'> Umesh Atre [mailto:umesh@innovativedesign.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:24 AM<br><b>To:</b> Brad L. Huff; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'>If you were to remove the 2-story atrium space with the skylights, you might get your single plenum per floor.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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"'> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brad L. Huff<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 18, 2011 11:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Plenum Zone Creation</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have found this subject discussed on the forums previously. However, eQuest does not seem to be cooperating with me. I am attempting to create one plenum zone per floor. I specified in the dd wizard one HVAC system per floor but it is still creating plenum zones for every space. This is going to be a 250,000 FT^2 building when I am finished with all the shells. I have found in the past that when I get buildings this large, eQuest begins running slow especially with multiple parametric runs. I found that one way to alleviate this problem is to have on plenum zone per floor. Any help would be appreciated. Attached are the .inp and the .pd2 files.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>Brad Huff, E.I.T., LEED Green Associate, Mechanical Engineer</span></b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'> </span><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I BVH Integrated Services I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>860.286.9171 tel </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 860.242.0236 fax</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> 50 Griffin Road South, Bloomfield CT 06002 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I <a href="http://www.bvhis.com/" title="http://www.bvhis.com/"><span style='font-weight:normal'>.bvhis.com</span></a> I</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>twitter.com/bvhis</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'> </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'>I Hartford Boston </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000A0'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>