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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks David and Nick. Your advice is
      much appreciated. <br>
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      - MRH<br>
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      On 2/27/2013 1:58 PM, Nick Caton wrote:<br>
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            direct answers, but I would plan on a long discussion with
            the HVAC designers to arrive at a mutual understanding of
            the “conditioned volume” and loads incident on that volume
            to be addressed by the systems.  Approaching this as
            thermally-connected conditioned/unconditioned zones matching
            those design parameters makes sense procedurally from an
            eQuest standpoint. 
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            results agree/ballpark with the designer’s calculations
            would be a good idea as well to nail down the nuts &
            bolts of your modeling procedure before crunch time (Keeping
            good notes & written communication will also be helpful
            later for model documentation).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Stylus
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                CATON, P.E.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Hein<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:32 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> Email question to eQuest<br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Indoor arena
                suggestions/tips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<br>
          <br>
          I'm working on an 150,000 sf indoor practice facility with 90
          ft ceilings. Does anyone have any suggestions/tips/heads-up
          comments that would be useful in starting this model?<br>
          Specifically, I'm wondering if I'll run into issues related to
          stratification and need to create 'sub-zones' so eQuest better
          represents the proposed distribution system.<br>
          <br>
          Thank you for your time and combined insight,<br>
          <br clear="all">
          <b>Matthew Hein</b>, P.E.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/27/2013 10:50 AM, David Eldridge
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          will assume a uniform temperature throughout the zone, so if
          the proposed HVAC system will allow stratification then you
          would need to do something like you are describing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">David
            S. Eldridge, Jr., P.E., LEED AP BD+C, BEMP, BEAP, HBDP</span><span
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