[Equest-users] eQuest training

[Edward Allen]

In general, for floors with different footprints, I use different shells in the DE wizard.  This allows you to specify the upper shell as being above an existing conditioned shell.  It will even allow "open to below" spaces for the top of atriums.

Edward M. Allen, P.E. CEM
Senior Energy Engineer
LONG Energy Solutions
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From: "Chris Jones" <cj at enersave.ca>
To: "Cristian Salvador Jara Toro" <cristian.jara.toro at gmail.com>
Cc: "&lt, equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org&gt," <equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org>
Subject: [Equest-users] eQuest training
Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 11:30 am



I don't mind the shapes.  It is just that I don't know how to get them from the electronic CAD drawings into equest successfully.

Perhaps the easiest thing would be to have the atrium be part of each floor - with "virtual" floors where there is no bridge. Then remove those "virtual" floors and revised the atrium polygon.  The example in this case used the atrium as the return air plenum with exhaust air heat reclaim in the winter and operable dampers top and bottom in the spring, summer, fall for free cooling when called for.


At 01:51 PM 04/08/2012, Cristian Salvador Jara Toro wrote:

well chris, this is a thing that we all were felt. but i think there are others applications to do or make weird shapes better. i do my models with IES-VE, and revit and sketchup plugins work quite good for those annoyances shapes, with bridges, corridors, 2storey halls, etc. but i'm sure of, perhaps, in new equest releases this issue would be complemmented with similar plugins; it should be!

regards chris!
On Aug 4, 2012 12:23 PM, "Chris Jones" <cj at enersave.ca<mailto:cj at enersave.ca>> wrote:

I do am self taught in equest but I had years of DOE2.1e experience.  The only course I would find helpful is the very beginning of the model - reading the CAD floor plans into equest.

I have never been able to bring in successive floors that have a different floor plate - changing size - smaller or larger (floor overhangs).  The situation I have absolutely no idea about is a building with a multi-storey, central atrium with "bridges" between the two sides of the atrium - corridors between each side.

I have never been able to find a course that specializes in weird geometry situations.

I just give up and go back to DOE2.1e where I can define the model without all that annoying 3-D x,y,z to have to contend with.  It makes nice pictures in the end but doesn't to a whole lot for productivity - at least in my case.



At 06:50 PM 02/08/2012, Cristian Salvador Jara Toro wrote:
Dear community,

 i´m interested in
http://energy-models.com/training/equest-leed-case-study training, but i´m not sure if it worth.

I do not have experience on equest modelling but I do so on IES-VE modelling, so, if
I have that experience, it would be necessary to do a training, or perhaps It would worth to take my own risk?

any comments?

best.


Cristian Jara Toro
Ingeniero Acústico

Cel: 6 207 8566


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