<div dir="ltr">Hi Nick,<div>Thanks for your prompt reply. You provided a great point! I will do per your feedback! Really appreciate that!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Frank</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Nicholas Caton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncaton@catonenergy.com" target="_blank">ncaton@catonenergy.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="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Assuming orientation is truly ‘unknowable:’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">For some building designs, orientation does not play a meaningful role using metrics like total annual energy costs/consumption. For other building designs, it is a bigger deal.  I would advise you to first perform a “sensitivity analysis” by comparing the results of a variety of orientation possibilities (after the rest of your model development is complete).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">Then, when you present your results you could for example present the lowest result and inform: “actual energy consumption may rise up to XX% if building orientation is not optimized.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">~Nick</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060">NICK CATON, P.E.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#561782">Owner</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#561782"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#561782">Caton Energy Consulting</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><br></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">  306 N Ferrel</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">  Olathe, KS  66061</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">  office:  <a href="tel:785.410.3317" value="+17854103317" target="_blank">785.410.3317</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#561782"><a href="http://www.catonenergy.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#561782">www.catonenergy.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#002060"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Equest-users [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Qi Jin<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, December 13, 2015 7:40 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] In case of not knowing building orientation, how we get a relatively accurate total energy consumption?</span></p><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello Dear All,</p><div><p class="MsoNormal">I have a question about building orientation in eQUEST model. I don't know building orientation and set the azimuth to be 0 as the baseline model.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">The question is <b>in case of we don't know building orientation, how do we get a relatively accurate total energy consumption?</b></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I found that someone simulated energy modeling under four building orientations, including 0, 90, 180, and 270. Energy consumption of four cases were averaged which was considered as the actual energy consumption.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Can anyone give me some ideas about this issue? Your help would be greatly appreciated!</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Frank</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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