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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Pasha,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Are there envelope improvements to the proposed building that significantly reduce the need for overnight heating and cooling?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Keith Swartz, PE
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Senior Energy Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:110%"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">608.210.7123 seventhwave.org<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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"> Pasha Korber-Gonzalez via Equest-users [mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 30, 2017 2:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> eQUEST Users List <equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] LEED Comment for FAN EFLH--help please<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello fellow eQuesters,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm sure we all get the standard LEED review comment regarding Fan equivalent full load hours (EFHL).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I received this one on my current project (elementary school in Ohio with heat recovery units.) I have confirmed that my fan schedules for both models are exactly the same. But I do have drastically different EFLH values for the baseline
(over 3,000) and proposed (less than 1,500).<br>
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I have made changes in my models, but I cannot seem to get the proposed hours over 1,600 of run time. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">QUESTION: Do any of you have any experience of suggesting to the LEED Reviewer that it is possible to have this significant of difference between the two models hvac systems AND how can I show justification for these run hours?? Any advice
& suggestions are welcomed at this time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the LEED comment I received with highlighted notes:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#444444">. Table EAp2-5 of the form indicates that the
<span style="background:yellow">equivalent full load hours for interior fans in the Proposed and Baseline model are 1,200 hours (57,951 kWh/48.31 kW) and 3,702 hours (130,702 kWh/35.31 kW), respectively; however, it is unclear if the HVAC fans are modeled as
cycling to meet the cooling and heating loads of the building during unoccupied hours.</span> Table G3.1.4 in the Proposed building column requires that HVAC fans that provide ventilation air in the Proposed model must be modeled as operating continuously
during occupied hours <span style="background:yellow">and cycled to meet the cooling and heating loads of the building during unoccupied hours, unless one of the exceptions of Table G3.1.4 are met. In addition, Section G3.1.2.4 requires that supply and return
fans reflected in the Baseline model must be modeled as operating continuously during occupied hours and cycled to meet the cooling and heating loads of the building during unoccupied hours,</span> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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