[Bldg-sim] Proposed Energy Modeling Conference - Your Input Requested

[JRR]

John Ross wrote;

I would skip Chicago in favor of Denver; DOE has a major presence at 
NREL, and a trip to a conference could be combined with a
visit to NREL to see what they're up to.........

As far as expecting honest straight forward answers from utility 
companies about how much energy you're using month to month and year to 
year.....
don't hold your breath !! A "major" electric utility in Northern 
Virginia changes the number of days in a particular month's bill from 
year to year.
The only place the number of days is shown is on the original bill. The 
previous 11 months shown on each bill have an unknown and variable 
number of days.
18 month and 24 month summaries did not show the number of days in each 
bill until I got a meeting with a new , Republican , County Supervisor.

The weather data for my location, Sterling VA, next huge Dulles Airport 
came chopped up into over 15 separate data files due to outages......
They actually don't have UPS backup power or redundant sensors for much 
of the "continuous data" that started in ? 1991 ??




Paul Carey wrote:
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> Dear Lynn,
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> I’d agree with James on this. Model calibration is something that is a 
> bit of a dark art. We carry it out for some projects, but it isn’t 
> easy in many tools (not even in E+, though we have done it a number of 
> times in this) and I’m sure a lot of people would benefit this.
>
> Unfortunately I don’t think you could teach a healthy scepticism of 
> results. That comes naturally or not.
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> In terms of location. Somewhere that us in the UK can get to easily 
> and affordably would be nice.
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> Cheers
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> *From:* bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org 
> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *James V 
> Dirkes II, PE
> *Sent:* 19 February 2010 22:58
> *To:* 'Bellenger, Lynn'; bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Bldg-sim] Proposed Energy Modeling Conference - Your 
> Input Requested
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> Dear Lynn,
>
> Thanks for asking!
>
> My vote goes to the topic “How do you know if your model is actually 
> working as intended?” (in other words, diagnostic and verification 
> practices) Some tools have extensive analysis capability and others 
> seem not to. Energy Plus can report on almost anything you desire, 
> while Trace 700 seems only able to give summary reports.
>
> Re: Location, Chicago is central, and vibrant – not a bad choice 
> (especially for someone form West Michigan!)
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> *From:* bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org 
> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Bellenger, Lynn
> *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2010 4:25 PM
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] Proposed Energy Modeling Conference - Your Input 
> Requested
>
> ASHRAE is in the early planning stages of an Energy Modeling 
> Conference for the spring of 2011 that is targeted for consulting 
> engineering practitioners. We are looking for input on the appropriate 
> topics and/or session types you would like to see at such a 
> conference. Some topic thoughts are: energy simulation, BIM, CFD and 
> daylight modeling.
>
> What conference content would prompt you to travel and attend such a 
> conference? Please be as specific as possible in describing what you 
> would like covered at the conference. What do you want to learn? What 
> location(s) in the US would draw the largest attendance, in your opinion?
>
> Personal regards,
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> *Lynn G. Bellenger, PE, FASHRAE*
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