[Equest-users] Correct approach to multiple building owners

[Bishop, Bill]

Rob,
 
Each LEED project should only consider the energy use specific to that
portion of the total building. I can think of at least three ways to do
this:
1.)     Model the entire building, with no intention of separating the
building geometry into halves. Determine the energy use for each LEED
project by assigning different meters.
2.)     Model the entire building as in 1.), but create separate shells
for each project. This is a little more work, but would allow more
project-specific editing in the wizard.
3.)     Model two separate buildings as different projects, creating
adiabatic and shading surfaces as necessary to represent the missing
building halves.
 
Without knowing more about your projects, I would choose option two. You
could create all your building shells for both projects quickly in the
wizard, and then add more details for whichever project has priority in
DD edit mode.
 
Regards,
Bill
 
William Bishop, PE, BEMP, LEED(r) AP | Pathfinder Engineers & Architects
LLP
Mechanical Engineer
 
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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
[mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Rob
Hudson
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:54 AM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] Correct approach to multiple building owners
 
I am not sure if anyone has encountered this before, my first guess is
they have.

i have a big building that will have two owners and the building is
basically split down the middle, and each has their own project that
will be applying for LEED status.  in the model should i exclude the
unowned portion of each "building" or should i model the whole damn
thing both times and give them baseline systems?  I would tend to think
i should model the building halves separately and then not include the
unowned portions of each "building".  

thoughts?

-- 
Rob Hudson
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