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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Patrick,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks very much for your quick reply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It is a 4-floors retail podium and about 27 floors office tower. Also has a big basement, the total gross floor area is about 1121319 sqft. 40,000sf is a big value but a small percentage for my building.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>No plenum zones in our models and I think the area discrepancy is because the outlines of our models’ footprint is not the same as the architecture drawings. I have done some simplifies when building the geometry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I will check according to your reminders. It would be lucky if some outdoor areas is in architecture gross floor areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Do you know how small the difference could be accepted by the review team?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Jie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Patrick J. O'Leary, Jr. [mailto:poleary1969@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 2013</span><span lang=ZH-CN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>年</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>2</span><span lang=ZH-CN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>月</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>28</span><span lang=ZH-CN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Microsoft JhengHei","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>日</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> 20:59<br><b>To:</b> Jenny Zhang<br><b>Cc:</b> 'equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] LEED EA comments about Model Area and the architecture GFA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>is your building single story or multiple story? 40,000 sf is a huge difference. two things i would check first are:<br><br>1. are parts of the building, in the architectural square footage, exterior? i.e the 1st floor plan sf the architect is using has canopy area, or is there a walkway under part(s) of the building if it is multistory?<br><br>where did the architect get the sf number they are using? and how does it impact calculations in other points?<br><br>2. does part of the building have plenums? plenum zones in the sv-a reports will show up in the area sf so if you have a vertical building & some floors have plenums while others don't this can skew the sf on the sv-a reports though not on the sf reported as the building/floor footprints. <br><br><br>On 2/28/13 5:40 AM, Jenny Zhang wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All friends,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got a LEED EA Cr1 review comment from GBCI. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s about the model area and architecture Gross square footage. The total building area in the simulation report is 1,121,319.6 square feet and the area in architecture documents is 1,161,727.32 square feet. The comments said that the area value in the model should be consistent with all other credits and LEED online and/or provide a supplemental narrative explaining the discrepancy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As a energy modeller I think all of you know that the area in the model could not be easily consistent with the architecture CAD drawings. Although In the footprint drawing stage I was very care about each floor’ area(because I understand the area in the model should be consistent with CAD drawings especially when it was for a LEED model), it still results discrepancy in the two area values.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now the difference about the two area values is about 40407.4 sqft (3754sqm), and it is only 3% of the total area. It’s hard to revise the model in this stage, but what I should do to explain the discrepancy. Does anybody here have experience to deal with this problem? And do you know how much difference (%) could be accepted by the review team?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your attention.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jie Zhang<o:p></o:p></p><p>____________________________________________________________<br>Electronic mail messages entering and leaving Arup business<br>systems are scanned for acceptability of content and viruses<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Equest-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>