[Hap-users] Total Wall area for each orientation

[Matthew Scott]

I think the point is for us to show that we are inputting windows in the
same proportions between the baseline and proposed buildings (both
buildings have the same glass area on the North wall for example), and
it acts as a check for ourselves to catch any errors. But I agree it's
very time-consuming. After corresponding with HAP tech support and the
program developer I trust we will see automation of this added to HAP in
the near future. In the meantime it's going to take several hours of
additional time and expense to manually compute these subtotals.

 

Matt Scott

N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.

329 East Second St, 2nd Flr

Boyertown, PA 19512

e: mscott at nefisher.com

p: 610-369-3190

f: 610-369-3194

 

From: Reba Schaber [mailto:Rschaber at PHMech.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:30 PM
To: Matthew Scott; hap-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: Total Wall area for each orientation

 

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
To: hap-users at lists.onebuilding.org
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

p: 610-369-3190

f: 610-369-3194

 

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] On Behalf Of Matthew
Scott
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 7:27 AM
To: hap-users at lists.onebuilding.org
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

p: 610-369-3190

f: 610-369-3194

 

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