[Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade

[Aulbach, John]

Paul:
 
I did a museum that was into the side of foothills. Just make sure your
surfaces touching the ground (floor and wall) are shown as Underground
(dark green on the 3-D color matrix.
 
John R. Aulbach, PE, CEM
Project Manager
Nexant, Inc.
701 West Kimberly Ave., Suite 245
Placentia, CA 92870-6342 USA
Phone: 714-524-4402
Fax: 714-524-4407
email: jaulbach at nexant.com
 

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[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Talbert,
Joshua
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:00 AM
To: Paul Carey
Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade



Howdy Folks:

 

Paul, thank you very much for the follow up.  Forgive me all, I forgot
to mention the software I am using, eQuest.  It appears I may have
solved my own question so I thought I'd post that back to the forum. 

 

In eQuest I created a bunch of different 'shells' for the areas above
and below the sloping grade.  Then using the manual coordinate placement
of shells was able to stack them following along the grade.  Somewhat
exhaustive but it seems to be working.

 

Thank you,

Josh

 

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From: Paul Carey [mailto:Paul at zed-uk.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:30 AM
To: Talbert, Joshua
Cc: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade

 

Josh

 

Kind of depends on what modelling tool you choose.  DesignBuilder make
this easy as you just draw the ground next to the building using the
ground obstructions component type (from memory) and it then assigns the
correct adjacency conditions to your model.  To do different wall panels
you just use sub-panels.

 

IES, you can do similar you just have to set adjacency conditions within
the model.  Seeing they now have their google sketchup link that might
make it quite easy to do too.  Same sort of thing in TAS.

 

Not sure in E-quest, but I'm sure someone will let you know.

 

Regards

 

Paul

 

Dr Paul Carey
Director

Zero Energy Design Ltd
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2-22 Mottram Road
Stalybridge
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UK

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From: bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Talbert,
Joshua
Sent: 05 September 2008 16:19
To: bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Bldg-sim] Floors Built into Grade

Hello:

 

I was wondering how do I model a building that is built into a hill side
where portions of floors are exposed and portions are below grade.  Any
help would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you, 

 

Josh

 

Joshua W. Talbert P.E., LEED-AP

Mechanical Engineer

Hallam///ICS

38 Eastwood Dr. Suite 200

S. Burlington, VT 05403

P: (802) 658-4891

F: (802) 658-1457

 

 

 

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