<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear E-Quest Users,</span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap">
<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I am modeling </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">for the first time </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">with Equest  a little office building in Madrid (Spain). I have had a problem whith weather files when assessing the compliance with ASRAE 90.1.  because of the building is out of USA. I have followed the advise told in the email explained just down this lines, that means to do the baseline with an USA location with the same climate zone (2B) than Madrid and then to edit it. But I can not entry to the Building Creation wizard and to edit it, since the program says: </span><b style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Only projects that were originally generated fromn wizard inputs allow re-entry into the building create wizard.</b></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><br></b></span></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">So the archive is in Detailed Data Edit mode but I can not change to Wizard Data Edit mode.......</font></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Does anybody knows how to edit the baseline archive with US weather file via the wizard mode to introduce Madrid's weather file allowing to make a realistic comparison? Via detailed edit mode the software is not prepared for out of USA...</font></pre>
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Thanks in advance,</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">Marcel Gómez</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">As a Canadian user, I sympathize. The current version of eQUEST (3.64) </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">will only generate the 90.1-2007 appendix G reference building for US  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">locations.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In that .pdf describing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the LEED compliance analysis, one of  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the "future features" is international locations. (It looks like </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">you can  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">just put the long and lat in but it won't accept them ... we won't talk  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">about how long I spent trying to do that!)</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">So, what you end up doing </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">for now is selecting a US location with the same climate zone as your </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">site, generating the reference building and then opening that as a </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">separate file and making any further required modifications -- such as </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">setting the weather file/project site correctly.</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Given that this is the 1st generation of eQUEST that creates a 90.1  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">reference, you want to go through that reference building very carefully </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">to ensure that it is correctly representing the reference you need to be </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">compared against.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">  </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">eQUEST saves you a </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">lot of work by automatically </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">generating the reference -- but you cannot use it blindly (yet).</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Good luck!</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brian</span></p>

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