[Hap-users] Total Wall area for each orientation

[Reba Schaber]

The building is still being rotated.  So a north wall will be east, south, and west during one point in the simulation. It's really the total square footage that counts.  They are requiring us to do extra work that is of no benefit.  The extra time and money it will take to do this makes my stomach turn.

Does anyone know how many other software programs can extract the wall area by orientation?

Aren't there other ways to communicate with USGBC besides credit interpretation requests?

~Reba

From: hap-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:hap-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Scott
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Hap-users] Total Wall area for each orientation

The new spreadsheet has instructions that say to enter the area for the North-facing or nearest North-facing, East-facing or nearest East-facing and so on... So I guess it's up to us to divvy up all of our Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest-facing exposures however we see fit or whichever way works out to meeting the LEED restrictions of how much glass area you're allowed on each exposure.

Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com<mailto:mscott at nefisher.com>
p: 610-369-3190
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From: Reba Schaber [mailto:Rschaber at PHMech.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:01 AM
To: Matthew Scott
Subject: RE: Total Wall area for each orientation

Area by orientation.  That's new since the last project I did.  The LEED spreadsheet only has rows for the four cardinal directions.  What about northeast facing walls?  I don't suppose we could overwrite the formula and just enter the total . . .

Sadly, I don't know of any way to get the wall area per orientation.  I will be using your approach of the space inputs and a spreadsheet.

~Reba

From: hap-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org<mailto:hap-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org> [mailto:hap-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Scott
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:27 AM
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Subject: [Hap-users] Total Wall area for each orientation

The new LEED section 1.4 Tables ask for the total area for each 90 degree orientation, as well as the total glass area on each orientation. Is there a quick way to get this info in HAP or is the only way to look at each space input and manually total it up?

Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com<mailto:mscott at nefisher.com>
p: 610-369-3190
f: 610-369-3194

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