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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi Ahmed:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think you still need interactive effects from the apartments. Are the common areas all on one electric meter? Any gas? You also didn't mention whether this was in a hot of cold climate.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I would do the whole building and cookie cutter the apartments into, say, facing directions. Make the electric usage EM1 and gas FM1. Then make the commons areas EM2 and FM2. Read up on how to aggregate the energy by meter.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I believe you would then have the EM2 and FM2 for monthly calibration to the meters.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hope that helps.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">John</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, February 10, 2022, 12:56:42 PM PST, Ahmad Fraij via Equest-users <equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv1074706206"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" class="yiv1074706206yahoo-style-wrap"><div dir="ltr">Hello Guys,</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I am modeling a residential apartments building and I have the energy consumption only for the common areas of this building. I need to calibrate the eQUEST model to this common areas monthly energy consumption data so, what will be the best solution? I am thinking about the below two solutions:</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><ul dir="ltr"><li>Can I connect all the common areas systems (HVAC, lighting...etc) to one meter and use the data of this meter to calibrate the model to the actual energy consumption? If yes, then in which simulation report can I find the monthly readings of this meter?</li><li>The other option I can do is to not assign any HVAC, lighting...etc to the residential apartments and I only assign these systems to the common areas and then run the simulation.</li></ul><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">So, did anybody encounter this before? which option of the above is the best? Or may be you can help me with another better solution?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanking you guys for any help</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ahmad</div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Equest-users mailing list<br><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org" target="_blank">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/equest-users-onebuilding.org</a><br>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a ymailto="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG" href="mailto:EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">EQUEST-USERS-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><br></div>
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