[Equest-users] Indoor arena suggestions/tips

[Matt Hein]

Thanks David and Nick. Your advice is much appreciated.

- MRH



On 2/27/2013 1:58 PM, Nick Caton wrote:
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> 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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> *Matt Hein
> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:32 AM
> *To:* Email question to eQuest
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] Indoor arena suggestions/tips
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> 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,
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On 2/27/2013 10:50 AM, David Eldridge wrote:
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> eQUEST will assume a uniform temperature throughout the zone, so if 
> the proposed HVAC system will allow stratification then you would need 
> to do something like you are describing.
>
> David
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