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From: Yuvaraj Saravanan &lt;Yuvaraj.Saravanan@arup.com&gt;
To: Nick Caton &lt;ncaton@smithboucher.com&gt;
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building
Thread-Topic: [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building
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Thanks for your reply Nick!



From: Nick Caton [mailto:ncaton@smithboucher.com]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 2:34 PM
To: Yuvaraj Saravanan; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building



A generic reminder: The mailing list archives are a resource every modeler =
should bookmark and utilize - many times the unique questions that come up =
as you're learning have already been asked and answered!  You can find the =
links for the bldg-sim and equest-users search pages, among other useful ti=
dbits, here: http://onebuilding.org/wiki/doku.php





&quot;Sandwiched&quot; roof surfaces between two shells WILL interact with the exteri=
or conditions.   If you have multiple shells with partially exposed roofs c=
oming from the wizards, you can handle the situation many ways within detai=
led mode.  Here are a few suggestions for varying effort/accuracy:



=B7         Low effort:  Delete all roof surfaces which are fully &quot;sandwich=
ed&quot; by the two shells

=B7         Moderate effort:  Delete roof surfaces which are fully &quot;sandwic=
hed&quot; by the two shells, then modify those which are partially covered to be=
 an appropriate surface area.

=B7         Medium-High effort:  Do the above, but also move/reshape the mo=
dified surfaces to ensure they receive direct solar loads but are shaded by=
 other parts of the model as appropriate.

=B7         &quot;I have no time to waste on accuracy&quot;: Approximate the building=
 as one multi-story shell using an identical averaged footprint for each fl=
oor.



The first option is what I'd call &quot;good enough&quot; for many cases.  The model =
creator gets to make the ultimate judgement regarding what's appropriate ho=
wever when it comes to accuracy.



That last option is generally appropriate when you need a quick estimate/an=
swer, but not what I'd personally call a &quot;finished product&quot; outside of spec=
ific cases in SD-level modeling.



Your &quot;validation&quot; investigation is something I'd encourage and often do mys=
elf when I want to get a question answered  - sometimes the best/quickest w=
ay to figure something out is to construct and run a test/experiment.



That said, I think you may be misled a bit:  True - there are no ceilings g=
enerated for multistory plenums by the wizards... Where that might lead you=
 to believe heat transfer isn't being modeled between floors (a fair assump=
tion for many multistory buildings, btw), &quot;one man's floor is another man's=
 plenum ceiling.&quot;  Note the floors for 2nd+ story spaces are interior surfa=
ces thermally tied to the corresponding plenum below ;).



Armed with that bit of knowledge:

=B7         Highest effort: Do the above steps, then also create/modify the=
 2nd+ story floor surfaces as standard interior surfaces with associations =
(thermal ties) to the appropriate ceiling plenums below, just as the wizard=
s do for a multi-story shell.



~Nick

cid:489575314@22072009-0ABB



NICK CATON, P.E.

SENIOR ENGINEER



Smith &amp; Boucher Engineers

25501 west valley parkway, suite 200

olathe, ks 66061

direct 913.344.0036

fax 913.345.0617

www.smithboucher.com



From: equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounc=
es@lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Yuvaraj Saravanan
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 12:27 PM
To: equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building



I have a two story building. The second floor has a smaller foot-print than=
 the first floor. I placed the second floor immediately above the first flo=
or in the wizard. What I am noticing is, for the first floor, equest is cre=
ating an exterior roof for the entire 1st floor foot-print although areas w=
here portions of the first floor covered by second floor will not have an e=
xterior roof. For the 1st floor, will e-quest calculate the heat-loss/gain =
for the entire area of the roof or will it know that there is a floor above=
 and will discount for the area of the second floor. If not, how do you dea=
l with this. FYI: I don't have identical zone for the first and second floo=
r.



One other thing I did is, I tried to validate it by creating two story buil=
ding by using shell multiplier in wizard  and noticed equest is not creatin=
g an exterior roof for the 1st floor.

Regards,

Yuvaraj



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&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Thanks for your reply =
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&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Sent:&lt;/b&gt; Friday, September 09, 2011 2:34 PM&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;To:&lt;/b&gt; Yuvaraj Saravanan; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Subject:&lt;/b&gt; RE: [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;=
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&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;A generic reminder: Th=
e mailing list archives are a resource every modeler should bookmark and ut=
ilize &#8211; many times the unique questions that come up as you&#8217;re =
learning have already been asked and answered!&nbsp;
 You can find the links for the bldg-sim and equest-users search pages, amo=
ng other useful tidbits, here:
&lt;a href=3D&quot;http://onebuilding.org/wiki/doku.php&quot;&gt;http://onebuilding.org/wik=
i/doku.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;&#8220;Sandwiched&amp;#822=
1; roof surfaces between two shells WILL interact with the exterior conditi=
ons.&nbsp; &nbsp;If you have multiple shells with partially exposed roofs c=
oming from the wizards, you can handle the situation many
 ways within detailed mode.&nbsp; Here are a few suggestions for varying ef=
fort/accuracy:
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;![endif]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Low effort:&amp;nb=
sp; Delete all roof surfaces which are fully &#8220;sandwiched&#8221; by th=
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;![endif]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Moderate effor=
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;![endif]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Medium-High ef=
fort:&nbsp; Do the above, but also move/reshape the modified surfaces to en=
sure they receive direct solar loads but are shaded by other parts of the m=
odel as appropriate.&nbsp;
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;![endif]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;&#8220;I have =
no time to waste on accuracy&#8221;: Approximate the building as one multi-=
story shell using an identical averaged footprint for each floor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p=
&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&#8221; investigation is something I&#8217;d encourage and often do myself =
when I want to get a question answered &nbsp;&#8211; sometimes the best/qui=
ckest way to figure something out is to construct and run a test/experiment=
.&nbsp;
&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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n&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;That said, I think you=
 may be misled a bit:&nbsp; True &#8211; there are no ceilings generated fo=
r multistory plenums by the wizards&#8230; Where that might lead you to bel=
ieve heat transfer isn&#8217;t being modeled between floors
 (a fair assumption for many multistory buildings, btw), &#8220;one man&amp;#82=
17;s floor is another man&#8217;s plenum ceiling.&#8221;&nbsp; Note the flo=
ors for 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt;&#43; story spaces are interior surfaces thermally ti=
ed to the corresponding plenum below ;).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/spa=
n&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Armed with that bit of=
 knowledge:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoListParagraph&quot; style=3D&quot;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level=
1 lfo2&quot;&gt;&lt;![if !supportLists]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;font-family:Symbol;color:#1F497=
D&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;mso-list:Ignore&quot;&gt;=B7&lt;span style=3D&quot;font:7.0pt &quot;Times=
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;![endif]&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;Highest effort=
: Do the above steps, then also create/modify the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt;&#43; story=
 floor surfaces as standard interior surfaces with associations (thermal ti=
es) to the appropriate ceiling plenums
 below, just as the wizards do for a multi-story shell.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/=
p&gt;
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&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;color:#1F497D&quot;&gt;~Nick&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span=
&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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0in 0in&quot;&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&amp;quot=
;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;&quot;&gt;From:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=3D&quot;font-s=
ize:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;&quot;&gt; equest-u=
sers-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebu=
ilding.org]
&lt;b&gt;On Behalf Of &lt;/b&gt;Yuvaraj Saravanan&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Sent:&lt;/b&gt; Friday, September 09, 2011 12:27 PM&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;To:&lt;/b&gt; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org&lt;br&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Subject:&lt;/b&gt; [Equest-users] Roof for multi-story building&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/sp=
an&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;I have a two story building. The second floor has a =
smaller foot-print than the first floor. I placed the second floor immediat=
ely above the first floor in the wizard. What I am noticing is, for the fir=
st floor, equest is creating an exterior
 roof for the entire 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; floor foot-print although areas where p=
ortions of the first floor covered by second floor will not have an exterio=
r roof. For the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; floor, will e-quest calculate the heat-loss/=
gain for the entire area of the
 roof or will it know that there is a floor above and will discount for the=
 area of the second floor. If not, how do you deal with this. FYI: I don&amp;#8=
217;t have identical zone for the first and second floor.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;One other thing I did is, I tried to validate it by =
creating two story building by using shell multiplier in wizard &nbsp;and n=
oticed equest is not creating an exterior roof for the 1&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; floor=
.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Regards,&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Yuvaraj&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=3D&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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urier New&quot;&quot;&gt;__________________________________________________________=
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