[Equest-users] Modeling Dormers

[Ryan Lacey]

Hello,

I am attempting to model the roof & top floor of my building.  It is a 12/12
roof with intersecting dormers and a flat section of roof.  There is no
magical way to make this happen from what I can tell.  I wish there was a
"easy button" like in those commercials!    My best solution so far has been
to create a 1' tall wall & build a 12/12 roof on it.  Rather than build the
roof on my 3rd floor, building the 1' wall allows me to apply my w/sf and
occupancy densities for that 1' wall floor area.  To represent the dormers
and protruding geometry I plan on modeling intersecting shells.  Is there
any issue with this method?  See below the image of the dormer and then the
X-ray image showing that the brick shaped block representing the dormer.
The block has geometry extending into the conditioned space.  It this an
issue?  Is geometry within geometry ignored in eQUEST?  If anybody has any
dormer modeling methods, I would greatly appreciate some tips!  

 

 

   

 

 

Thanks!

 

Ryan Lacey

LEED AP

Petersen Engineering, Inc.

PO Box 4774

6 Market Square

Portsmouth, NH 03801

Phone 603.436.4233 x113

Fax 603.436.4294

www.petersenengineering.com

ryan at petersenengineering.com

 

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