<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11245" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302">I recently submitted a model to the local utility company for an incentive. Part of the buildings' first floor is slab on grade.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11310"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11309"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302">One of the comments I received back is that this erroneously shows up as an exterior surface and I should delete all the slab on grade floors in the component tree. Doesn't seem right to me.<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11372"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11378"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302">I did a few and it does reduce the overall energy consumption. In the 3D model, no floors show, just open to the interior of the zone.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11371"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11373"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302">So is eQuest assuming that without this floor, there is no heat loss out the bottom of the zone? Is this reasonable?<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11387"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11388"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11302">Thank you,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11246"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1517591308519_11247">Paul Diglio<br><br></div></div></body></html>