<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I don't have prototype models handy, but in the past, I've gotten the folks that maintain the DEER database to send them to me. A few years back, the DEER folks mentioned they'd eventually be available for download, but I haven't seen that happen yet. If you contact the DEER folks and they send you models, let me know, since I know there's certain parameters within them that can't be changed. It's difficult to explain in an e-mail, but I can walk you through it.<br><br>Another route would be to build prototype models based on DEER data since they've spent an awful lot of time developing parameters to go into prototypes. The way the parameters are laid out in the DEER documentation, it wouldn't take too long to build prototypes in eQUEST.<br><br>Navigate to the DEER
site:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.energy.ca.gov/deer/">http://www.energy.ca.gov/deer/</a></span><br><br>(a couple of hyperlink clicks from this site will get you to DEER)<br><br>Download the 2005 Final Report in MS Word format with references. This will give you the final report with Excel spreadsheets quantifying the various parameters that went into constructing the representative models. Also included, in chapter 6, are summary explanations of the various prototypes.<br><br>Download the update reports for the 2008 and 2011 revisions that include changes made to the 2005 building prototypes.<br><br>If you're looking at projects outside of California, you'd probably want to determine whether to change parameters such as lighting density.<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Pete Baumstark<br>San Jose, CA<br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman,
new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Varkie C Thomas <thomasv@iit.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kang.Lee@sce.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, July 18, 2012 12:25:17 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Equest-users] Equest DOE 2.2 prototypes or model needed<br></font><br>
<p><span>This is a prototype model I used for teaching (download eQ files). The analysis was done with DOE21E (files not uploaded). <a target="_blank" href="http://bepan.info/proj-bldgs/p12-middle-school">http://bepan.info/proj-bldgs/p12-middle-school</a> </span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bepan.info/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Proj-12_-_eQUEST_Runs_Folders.78160706.zip">Proj-12 - eQUEST-Runs (Folders containing *.pd2 and *.inp files)</a> </p>
<p><span>The same is true of <a target="_blank" href="http://bepan.info/proj-bldgs/p13-high-rise-bldg">http://bepan.info/proj-bldgs/p13-high-rise-bldg</a> </span></p>
<p><span>See <a target="_blank" href="http://bepan.info/contents">http://bepan.info/contents</a> for other case studies</span></p>
<p>Varkie Thomas</p>
<p><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.iit.edu/arch/faculty/thomas_varkie.shtml">http://www.iit.edu/arch/faculty/thomas_varkie.shtml</a></span></p>
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<font face="sans-serif" size="2">I was wonder if anyone had any Equest DOE
2.2 prototypes for an office, school, or retail store.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Thank you,</font>
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