[Equest-users] Indoor arena suggestions/tips

Nick Caton ncaton at smithboucher.com
Wed Feb 27 11:58:17 PST 2013


No direct answers, but I would plan on a long discussion with the HVAC designers to arrive at a mutual understanding of the "conditioned volume" and loads incident on that volume to be addressed by the systems.  Approaching this as thermally-connected conditioned/unconditioned zones matching those design parameters makes sense procedurally from an eQuest standpoint.

Time permitting, running an early "test" model to ensure the results agree/ballpark with the designer's calculations would be a good idea as well to nail down the nuts & bolts of your modeling procedure before crunch time (Keeping good notes & written communication will also be helpful later for model documentation).

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hein
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:32 AM
To: Email question to eQuest
Subject: [Equest-users] Indoor arena suggestions/tips

Hello all,

I'm working on an 150,000 sf indoor practice facility with 90 ft ceilings. Does anyone have any suggestions/tips/heads-up comments that would be useful in starting this model?
Specifically, I'm wondering if I'll run into issues related to stratification and need to create 'sub-zones' so eQuest better represents the proposed distribution system.

Thank you for your time and combined insight,

Matthew Hein, P.E.
BTU Engineering, Inc.
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