[Equest-users] Building Square Footage

[Pasha Korber-Gonzalez]

Hi Rob,

this is a good question and important to understand about how inputs are
translated to DOE & reported in the output.

Yes you are right that the summary is accounting for the floor area of the
unconditioned spaces as well and the plenum spaces.  If you look at report
LV-B, summary of spaces in your project you will find the info you are
looking for.

This report is a listing of all the spaces (or thermal zones) in the
project.  Theis listing incudes both conditioned spaces as well as
unconditioned spaces and plenums.  In reviewing this report, pay special
attention to the column labeled "space floor multiplier".  The total area
and volume for each space is this value times the area and volume listed in
the last two columns.  The building totals row includes the effect of these
multipliers, but the area includes plenums and unconditioned spaces as
well.

Pasha

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Rob Hudson <rdh4176 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This seems like a silly question, but i would like some input regardless.
> My building has three floors, each about 9,500 square feet.  However, the
> looking at the BEPU and other reports are showing a total utility cost of
> 110632$ and a $/sqft of 2.25.  this shows a sqft of about 50,000 for the
> building.  Is this something that i should disregard or is it relevant?  I
> have also modeled the unconditioned space above each room as a separate
> space.  Could the program be combining this plenum space into the sqft of
> the entire building?  Is this plenum sqft affecting the output of the
> reports?  any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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> Rob Hudson
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