[Equest-users] window replacement

Sami, Vikram Vikram.Sami at perkinswill.com
Tue Aug 24 09:52:31 PDT 2010


Ben,

I would first go back to your base model and examine what percentage of the building load is actually coming from the glass. Your LS-C reports will give you your peak load components, and LS-F will give you your Monthly load components - a better indicator of overall energy usage.



Keep in mind this doesn't factor in ventilation loads. You will need to look at the SS-D report to get an overall picture of the loads your system sees, and work backwards from that to get a picture of what the ventilation component is. So for example - if your LS-C shows a peak cooling load of 1000kBTU/hr and your SS-D Shows 1500 kBTU/hr, then your ventilation loads will be 500 kBTU/hr. [eQUEST users - please correct me if I'm wrong here]



So if your glass conductance + Solar is 15% f the overall load, then a 5% savings is pretty significant, however, if its 50% of the load, then there might be a problem with your model.





Hope this helps






Vikram Sami, LEED AP
Sustainable Design Analyst
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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Ben Pressman
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:21 PM
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Cc: Justin Murray
Subject: [Equest-users] window replacement



  Thanks, Carol, for your quick response. I think my question might have

been too specific. My baseline model agrees to within 5% of the actual

gas and electric bills for the building. The exterior walls, especially

north and south elevations, are about 30% windows by area. By replacing

single-paned windows with double-paned, modern windows, I am expecting

about a 23% reduction in energy usage based on simple heat equation

estimations. eQuest is only returning a 5% savings. I suspect I am not

defining the replacement windows correctly, but it seems there must also

be a problem with how eQuest is calculating my heating loads through the

windows. I specified the windows' estimated percent wall area, and also

drew custom windows everywhere to match what the actual building looks

like. What is the best way to approach solving this problem?



Thanks again,

Ben



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