[Bldg-sim] Prototype Commercial Building?

Morgan Heater morgan at ecotope.com
Thu Jul 15 14:23:25 PDT 2010


Are your prototypes the ones that were converted into the energyplus files
referenced here?

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/commercial_initiative/reference_buil
dings.html

If you had a doe-2 version of the medium office prototype, that would be
really helpful.  

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Huang [mailto:YJHuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:17 PM
To: Morgan Heater
Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Prototype Commercial Building?

Are you referring to a prototypical commercial office building?
While at LBNL, I developed a suite of 486 prototypical commercial 
buildings covering 16 building types of three vintages in 16 cities,
that were later generalized to around 120 regional prototypes.

These were originally developed in the early 1990's as DOE-2 files,
but were converted to EnergyPlus in 2005-2007 and now exist as DOE's
benchmark buildings available on the NREL web site.  However, I did
all the development work in DOE-2, and still have all these DOE-2
files, with the intention of putting them on my Web site at some
point.

I can send you the medium office prototype if you're interested.
A distinguishing feature of these prototypes is that the input files
are highly modular and make extensive use of DOE-2 macros to set the
key building parameters (size, number of floors, interior conditions, 
etc.). This makes the building models very flexible and extensible.
After all, I've yet to meet a researcher who just wanted to have an
input file and do a run without any modifications.

Joe

Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 108D
Moraga CA 94556
(o) +925 388 0265
(c) +510 928 2683
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
www.whiteboxtechnologies.com


Morgan Heater wrote:
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> Hi - I'm looking for either a doe2 model or a list of modeling 
> parameters for a prototype commercial building.  Ideally, I'm looking 
> for a model that's for a typical commercial building around 40,000 
> square feet that's been used/validated in other research projects.
> 
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> Anybody have any leads?  Thanks. 
> 
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> 
> Morgan Heater, PE, LEED AP
> 
> Ecotope, Inc
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> (206) 322-3753 x209
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> 4056 9th Avenue NE
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> Seattle, WA  98105
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