[Bldg-sim] [Ibpsausa] DOE Job Task Analysis for Energy Modelers: Open for public comment until Nov. 28th

Jeff Haberl jhaberl at tamu.edu
Thu Nov 17 19:57:53 PST 2011


O.K.



So much for me reading my email...in fact, I did indeed get this but did nothing.



However, even though there was an email about this, there was no discussion about this at the June IBPSA-USA meeting, nor was there a request for this to be put on the agenda at the June ASHRAE meeting for TC 4.7, Standard 140, or other committees of interest. In addition, Charles Eley has held several conference calls (some of which I've attended), which have discussed COMNet, yet this was not mentioned on any of the calls I attended.



In addition, such documents like this, if they are coordinated with ASHRAE, will usually be sent to RAC then to the TCs for comment, back to RAC and then back to DOE.



Finally, if this effort was truly important to DOE, why are there no other participants from the other National Labs? Why is NREL the only lab with expertise in this area? Or for that matter, why are there no individuals from outside the US? Or even Canada?  Seems fishy.



Somehow, I still don't get a warm, friendly feeling about this.



Jeff


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________________________________
From: Jason Kirkpatrick [jason.alan.kirkpatrick at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 9:29 PM
To: Jeff Haberl
Cc: Studer, Daniel; Doug Hittle; Roth, Amir (HQ); Building Simulation; ibpsausa at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Bldg-sim] [Ibpsausa] DOE Job Task Analysis for Energy Modelers: Open for public comment until Nov. 28th

Jeff,

The following went out on the Bldg-sim listserve in March 2011.

Also, the IBPSA Wiki known as BEMBook is mostly empty. Maybe there's another one that I am unaware of?

Jason Kirkpatrick

Building Performance Analyst
Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Phone: 415-352-3811
_______________________________________________


Opportunity Announcement

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is currently
sponsoring a project to develop (1) job task analyses (JTAs), which
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Sincerely,
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_______________________________________________

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