[Equest-users] LEED compliance analysis in Europe - site data longitude and latitude in eQUEST (3.64)

[Brian Fountain]

As a Canadian user, I sympathize.  The current version of eQUEST (3.64) 
will only generate the 90.1-2007 appendix G reference building for US 
locations.  In that .pdf describing the LEED compliance analysis, one of 
the "future features" is international locations. (It looks like you can 
just put the long and lat in but it won't accept them ... we won't talk 
about how long I spent trying to do that!)  So, what you end up doing 
for now is selecting a US location with the same climate zone as your 
site, generating the reference building and then opening that as a 
separate file and making any further required modifications -- such as 
setting the weather file/project site correctly.

Given that this is the 1st generation of eQUEST that creates a 90.1 
reference, you want to go through that reference building very carefully 
to ensure that it is correctly representing the reference you need to be 
compared against.  eQUEST saves you a lot of work by automatically 
generating the reference -- but you cannot use it blindly (yet).

Good luck!

Brian



On 11/29/2011 7:59 AM, Anne Caminade wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have a LEED project in the center of Berlin for which I need to 
> perform a LEED Compliance analysis (LEED V3.0). We have chosen to use 
> eQUEST 3.64 as it can generate automatically the reference building 
> (baseline). I have read the eQUEST introductory tutorial as well as 
> the LEED tutorial.
>
> I have built my building model (7 storey-building + 2 basement floors, 
> compact shape and quite simple layout) using the SD wizard than the DD 
> wizard and finally twicking my HVAC inputs in the detailed mode. I 
> have managed to run a simulation after correcting my BDL errors, 
> however I cannot run a LEED Compliance analysis (generate baseline 
> building), since it fails in the pre-check stages.
>
>  The reason is I have not entered a longitude and latitude for Berlin! 
> I have desperately tried to enter one but the input cell won't let me 
> (the cells are colored in white but when I type a figure there, the 
> software doesn't hold the value down...same for the altitude of the 
> site). I have managed to enter the time zone though (-1).
>
> Latitude for Berlin is 52.47 N, and latitude is 13.4 E therefore the 
> input should be +52.47 and -13.4?
>
> I have generated a Berlin weather file using an Energy plus weather 
> file and converting it.<<ScreenShot019.jpg>> <<DEU_Berlin_IWEC.BIN>>
>
> I attach a screenshot of the error message as well as my weather file. 
> Maybe I am making a basic mistake and someone could point me rapidly 
> in the right direction?
>
> I would appreciate any help!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anne
>
> Anne Caminade
>
> Projektleiterin
>
> Dipl. Ing. INSA / MSc.
>
> Lemon Consult GmbH -- Zürich
>
> Energy Efficiency Engineering
>
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