[Equest-users] Where to find summary of overridden defaults etc.

[Mark Darrall]

Thanks, everyone!

Don't forget, too, that the Appendix G requirements don't always jive with default eQ values. Also, my reviewer has asked that autosizing not be done for baseline, which probably meant more overrides...

I appreciate the tip on searching the .inp file. Thanks!

MARK DARRALL, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB
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From: R B [mailto:slv3sat at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 1:12 PM
To: Nick Caton
Cc: Mark Darrall; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Where to find summary of overridden defaults etc.

If in the baseline (and may be the proposed case), I have made changes from the auto-sizing (and from the proposed design) to reduce the unmet hours, I count that as default over-ridden. This is usually a small number (less than 5 if I remember correctly).
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Nick Caton <ncaton at smithboucher.com<mailto:ncaton at smithboucher.com>> wrote:
Hi Mark,

For eQuest, I don't believe there is any reasonable way to tally "default overrides."   For LEED submittals, I typically enter zeroes at the corresponding template queries, and that's what I've suggested to others for initial submittals.  I've heard others enter "9999" in all fields without comment, but 0 seems less conspicuous to me =).

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If a reviewer were to push me to come up with a figure without any specific guidance after an initial submittal, I suppose I would paste the .inp file into a word document, ctrl+f for instances of the text ".." without quotes, and explain that number represents an estimate of the number of non-library entries in the project (screengrab):
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I would probably wonder about the reviewer somewhere along the way too...  Anyone familiar with eQuest and LEED knows there's no way to finish a 90.1-based model without a horde of non-default entries...  I'm having difficulty guessing at how this figure could help an eQuest model reviewer do their job properly.  Perhaps it's specific to other software packages... Thoughts anyone?

To be clear, I'd sooner advise just entering 0's in lieu of jumping through any unnecessary hoops.

~Nick

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Subject: [Equest-users] Where to find summary of overridden defaults etc.

Hi,

I know that when a run has issues, it creates an ATTN report with the warnings listed. But how can I find out how many default values have been overridden without going through every screen and counting them?

Thanks, all!

MARK DARRALL, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, NCARB
Senior Project Manager

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