[Bldg-sim] Food for thought....

[Arpan Bakshi]

I would contact Zheng O'Neill. She was commissioned to do a similar study
for the Dept. of Defense as part of her work at United Technologies, which
she presented at IBPSA New York.

http://www.aeeny.org/presentations/Feb12_NYC_AEE_Building_Modeling_Calibration.pdf




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On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Jim Dirkes <
jim at buildingperformanceteam.com> wrote:

> Dear Forums,****
>
> I am busy preparing a short talk for the Fall ASHRAE Energy Modeling
> Conference.  The topic is “An Approach for Calibrating Existing Building
> Energy Models to their Utility Consumption”.****
>
> As part of the preparation, I will address the issue of how much
> difference might result in energy conservation measure savings predictions
> if you use *actual* weather data for the billing period versus *TMY*data.
> ****
>
> To get a rough idea  how much variation there might be, I looked at Degree
> Days for a span of years.  What a variation! (for the city I’m studying at
> least)****
>
> I am not yet sure how that affects total energy consumption – you’ll have
> to attend my presentation in Atlanta to find out J.****
>
> In the meantime, I am starting to think that existing building energy
> models should use *actual* weather, not TMY data.  Have any of you run
> similar comparisons for existing building models?****
>
> ****
>
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