<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Also there is AECOsim, the interface to Energy Plus by Bentley- It feels a bit dated- sorta like eQuest..</font></font><div><font color="#336666" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br>
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AECOsim Energy Simulator</h2><img src="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/images/screen_shot_aecosim_homescreen.gif" alt="Screen shot of the AECOsim Energy Simulator." border="0" height="201" width="330" style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:20px 0px 5px 10px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px;float:right"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">
Bentley Systems released v1.0 of its new building performance simulation product,<a href="http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/AECOsim/aecosim+energy+simulator.htm" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">AECOsim Energy Simulator</a>, in September 2011. Energy Simulator incorporates the EnergyPlus V6.0 simulation engine for building performance calculations, and also includes steady state design methods such as ASHRAE RTS and CIBSE Heat Gain/Heat Loss. Built on top of Bentley's BIM platform, Energy Simulator allows users to work seamlessly between industry CAD, BIM, and AEC applications such as MicroStation, AutoCAD, Revit, and others and supports standard file formats such as gbXML, DXF, DGN, and DWG.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Energy Simulator is available now through the <a href="http://www.bentley.com/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">Bentley website</a>, as a 30-day trial. You can also read more <a href="http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Promo/AECOsim/aecosim+energy+simulator.htm" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">about Energy Simulator</a>.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Energy Simulator features comprehensive HVAC systems capabilities — exposing all the inputs for EnergyPlus HVAC components and systems, but also provides more than 17 preconfigured HVAC systems that require few user inputs. The HVAC designer also displays the loops and connections for the systems. Energy Simulator automatically creates the baseline and budget buildings for ASHRAE Standard 90.1 (2004 and 2007) and creates energy performance data for use in AECOsim Compliance Manager for LEED 3.0 documentation.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Check out the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/EnergySimulator" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">EnergySimulator YouTube Channel</a> for video demos of Energy Simulator.</p>
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<img src="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/images/hevacomp_image.gif" alt="Screen shot of Hevacomp Design Simulation." border="0" height="248" width="330" style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:20px 0px 5px 10px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px;float:right"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">
For more than 28 years <a href="http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Building%20Analysis%20and%20Design/Hevacomp.htm?skid=CEO_NA_HPGB_DOE_ARTICLE1&BI=link&v=HPGB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">Bentley Hevacomp</a> has provided designers, building engineers, and consultants with the tools they need to meet the challenges of creating energy-efficient buildings that are tuned to their environment, perform for their occupants, and provide ROI for their owners.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Bentley Hevacomp offers software for building performance design, simulation, and energy certification based on the EnergyPlus analysis engine. Supporting ISO, IEE, CIBSE, and ASHRAE standards, these industry-leading tools are used around the world to help predict a building's real-world performance as well as quickly analyze design options to see if they pass or fail certification and provide the appropriate documentation, such as those mandated by U.K. Part L, Australia Section J, and the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Bentley Hevacomp is also the leading UK design software — used by 70% of the medium to large consulting engineers in the UK, with a user base of 3,000 sites worldwide. Bentley Hevacomp provides a range of building services software, including heating and cooling loads, energy, pipe and duct sizing, lighting and electrical design. Until now, Bentley Hevacomp has produced software based on straightforward steady or quasi-steady state methods; this approach has proved popular with engineers, who appreciate easy-to-use software.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Over the past few years, engineers have been required to carry out more complex analysis, such as overheating frequency, mixed mode ventilation, CFD analysis, etc. To meet this demand, Bentley Hevacomp has developed a Design Simulation package, using EnergyPlus as the calculation engine. An important feature of the design simulation package is that simulation can be carried out using the same project data that was set up using simple load calculations. This enables simulation studies to be carried out without entering additional project data. This is an important feature, to lead engineers easily into simulation</p>
<img src="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/images/hevacomp_cfd.gif" alt="Screen shot of Hevacomp Design Simulation." border="0" height="254" width="330" style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:12px;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:20px 0px 5px 10px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px;float:right"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">
With Bentley Hevacomp software, a building is set up by tracing around the internal perimeter of each room, adjacent surfaces are automatically detected as partitions. Databases of construction elements are used. An extensive roof and floor modeling program is available, which enables simple or complex roofs to be traced from DXF files. Walls and partitions are automatically trimmed vertically to fit the roof, and rooms above and below target rooms are detected. This enables a full 3-D model to be produced for little more effort than a simple 2-D tracing.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Once the building has been set up, building simulation linking to EnergyPlus can be performed to examine room heat losses and gains, summer overheating, peak design months, overheating frequency, and building energy. The package will also produce 3-D external shading graphics and internal solar penetration graphics, showing moving sunshine patches within rooms.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Summer overheating frequency is simulated using CIBSE summer design year data. Weather and hours of overheating can be obtained from cumulative frequency results to check against UK Part L code requirements. Natural infiltration can be examined by defining flow paths and opening windows, this enables complex natural and mixed mode ventilation systems to be examined, including controlled opening of windows.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">A large amount of weather data for annual energy simulation is provided; as well as ASHRAE and CIBSE weather data, Hevacomp provides an extensive Meteonorm weather database of over 7000 locations world-wide. A detailed profiling and scheduling module is available so that you can set up any required plant, gains, occupancy and temperature schedules. Typical schedules for a large range of building are provided, compatible with UK Part L requirements.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">As well as building simulation, a plant simulation module is available to enable engineers to simply define HVAC systems such as radiators, warm air, constant volume a/c, VAV, fan coils, room a/c units, etc. Central plant items such as boilers, chillers and cooling towers can also be defined. Databases of common plant and equipment are provided. From a brief HVAC set of data, the package will automatically set up all the required HVAC components, water and air networks and central plant. Although simple to set up, complex systems can be defined, which are not limited to Compact HVAC components.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">With plant simulation, plant sizing can be carried out, using summer and winter design days, plant and equipment sizing schedules are produced. Annual energy consumption can be computed, together with fuel cost and CO2 consumption.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">Hevacomp has an alliance with CHAM (UK) so that results from Design Simulation can automatically be used to carry out CFD analysis, enabling room air movement and temperature studies to be carried out. Hevacomp provides an extensive object library so that you can place items such as furniture and people in rooms to see the effect on air movement.</p>
<p style="vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(60,67,73);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;border:0px;padding:0px">More information on Bentley Hevacomp's Design Simulation is available from <a href="http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Products/Building%20Analysis%20and%20Design/Hevacomp.htm?skid=CEO_NA_HPGB_DOE_ARTICLE1&BI=link&v=HPGB" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(24,60,86)" target="_blank">www.hevacomp.com</a>.</p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Brian Fountain <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfountain@greensim.com" target="_blank">bfountain@greensim.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="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This is a question that is probably better suited to the BLDG-SIM list.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Software that I am aware of that I <i>think</i> automatically creates the 90.1 baseline (none of which I have used so cannot recommend personally):<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Energy Gauge - <a href="http://www.energygauge.com/" target="_blank">http://www.energygauge.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">IES-VE <a href="http://www.iesve.com/" target="_blank">http://www.iesve.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></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""> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nimesh Prajapati Nimesh<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 20, 2012 1:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Is there any software which automatically creates Baseline system as per Appendix G<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Dear All eQuest Users,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">My Question may be asked before & may look funny. . .<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">But as I do not know the answer I am asking you all: Is there any software which automatically creates Baseline system as per Appendix G?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Or we have to create manually by having the inputs from Appendix - G in all the soft-wares that are available in the market i.e. . energy plus, eQuest etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:blue">Thanks,<br>
<br>Nimesh Prajapati<br><br>HVAC Design Engineer <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="tel:%28%2B91%209687133492" value="+919687133492" target="_blank">(+91 9687133492</a>)<br>
email: <a href="mailto:nimonomics@yahoo.in" target="_blank">nimonomics@yahoo.in</a><br>Skype: nimonicideas<br></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#407f00">Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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