[Equest-users] Baseline or Proposed? Chicken or the egg?

[Carol Gardner]

I used to always start with the proposed case but with eQUEST 3.64 it seems
like it will be best to start with the baseline building.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Sami, Vikram
<Vikram.Sami at perkinswill.com>wrote:

> It depends.
>
> Typically when I use a model for design assistance there is no proposed
> case - I start off with a baseline. That helps identify potential strategies
> that will eventually make up the proposed building.
>
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> Out of curiosity do you build your proposed model first or your baseline
> model first?
>
>
> I build my proposed model first.  This is the way that I was taught and the
> way I learned that makes sense to me in terms of "backing-off" the
> performance values to that equal of the baseline values.  Or in the case of
> different types of HVAC systems I prefer to build the proposed model first
> and then do a "save as" to a baseline file to make all the appropriate
> baseline input adjustments.  This just seems most efficient for my modeling
> approach.
>
> What's your approach?
>
> pkg
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Carol Gardner PE
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