[Bldg-sim] "Horses mouth" question.

[John Aulbach]

All:

Question on Cool Roof and the way to simulate them in eQuest.



My boss came to me with a cool roof and asked me to do a quick eQuest on it. I 
did a 25,000 sf single story office in Los Angeles, saw the roof outside 
emissivity was 0.9.  I changed it to 0.5 and the electric usage went UP. I 
change it again to 0.12 and the electric usage went up AGAIN. The HVAC is a 
standard single zone pacakge unit with furnace heat.

Am I seeing reality or what am I missing?

Thanks.



John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM
Senior Energy Engineer

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