[Bldg-sim] ASEAM program

[JRR]

John Ross wrote;

The Commonwealth of Virginia and its wonderful State Corporation Commission
allows some very heinous, nasty billing practices concerning electric bills,
I'm "all electric" here as far as the utility  company is concerned.........

They allow the number of days in a month's bill to vary between 28 and 
35 days;
AND  any two same months ie  December 2008 and December 2009 DO NOT
have the same number of days billed in general....There is a listing of 
the kwhr
used for each of the previous 12 months on each month's bill but there 
is no mention
of days in the billing cycles, HDDs or CDDs for those months. ... the 
days billed is
only given for the current month and requests for old records from the power
company were returned without days billed also.

Every State is supposed to have a Climatology Record, Virginia's record 
is at
The University of Virginia.  Look at the NOAA website to track down the
records for the state in question.  I suggest on-site daily readings for 
high
performance buildings. I got 120 gallons of 143 F water from my "Oversquare"
array today at my house and it's December 30 just 9 days off Dec 21....
At a customer site just 12 miles away they were 40% overcast between noon
and 2 pm, critical hours this time of year.

Do you want to stage the multiple heating systems ?? My biggest problem 
with E+
is the lack of "innovation" available in the heating systems to be 
modeled. I have
tricks up my sleeve that just destroy conventional heating systems. You 
might not
want to do some of these on a large commercial building, but on a 
residence with
telecommuting from home... it's Solar Sailing in an unlimited 10 meter 
boat...


James V. Dirkes II P.E. wrote:
> Dear Bldg-Sim list,
>
> I'm still unable to track down ASEAM (although several of you provided
> helpful leads), so I'll phrase the question differently:
>
> I want to create a simple energy model of:
> 1) existing buildings 
> 2) which use more than one HVAC system
> 3) using the ACTUAL weather data from the last 12 months. 
>
> Any suggestions? 
>
>
> The Building Performance Team
> James V. Dirkes II, P.E., LEED AP
> 1631 Acacia Drive NW
> Grand Rapids, MI 49504
> 616 450 8653
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of James V. Dirkes
> II P.E.
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:18 PM
> To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] ASEAM program
>
> Dear Bldg-Sim community,
>
> Many years ago, I used "A Simplified Energy Analysis Method" software, which
> was a bin analysis energy modeling tool.  I'm interested in finding it
> again, primarily for existing building models, but can't locate it.
>
> Has anyone got current contact info for that program?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> The Building Performance Team
> James V. Dirkes II, P.E., LEED AP
> 1631 Acacia Drive NW
> Grand Rapids, MI 49504
> 616 450 8653
>
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