[Equest-users] Model simplification & LEED

[John Aulbach]

Zones, Sir, should suffice. I assume you speak of interior walls.

--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Lars Fetzek <lfetzek at phoenixeng.us> wrote:

> From: Lars Fetzek <lfetzek at phoenixeng.us>
> Subject: [Equest-users] Model simplification & LEED
> To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 7:52 AM
> 
> 
>  
>  
>  
> Fellow 
> eQuesters,
>  
>     I 
> am modeling an office building with a few HVAC zones, each
> of which is supplied 
> through a VTU.  Within each zone are many walls which,
> collectively, could 
> require the rest of my life to model.  To model these
> walls seems a bit 
> more detail than physics justifies, since they generally
> separate rooms within 
> zones rather than the zones, themselves, and because all of
> the building is 
> intended to maintain the typical 75 degrees F temperature
> and the air will, of 
> course, circulate among nearby rooms.
>     
> Can anyone tell me whether choosing to model only those
> walls that are at the 
> borders of HVAC zones will cause an objection by the
> LEED/USGBC people who will 
> be reviewing the building (and my model) for LEED 
> certification?
>     
> Thanks.
>  
> Lars 
> Fetzek
> Phoenix Engineering 
> Group
> Tampa, 
> Florida 
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