[Equest-users] Modeling regular curtain wall systems

[Carol Gardner]

Intriguing question. I did just a little looking around and found:
windows.lbl.gov/software/NFRC/NFRCSim6.3-2010-Manual.pdf.
*which is a link to the user manual for Window and Therm. Check it out. You
can create things, windows,etc., maybe even curtainwalls, using Window and
import them into eQUEST

Carol
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Mark Darrall <MDarrall at a2so4.com> wrote:

> Hi!
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> What’s the best way to input a curtain wall system to allow for the
> repetitive vertical mullions? I can calculate system U factor based on the
> area of vision glass : overall area, but I don’t see a way to input that
> directly…unless:
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> If the vertical mullions are already captured in the system U factor can I
> just ignore it and treat it like one huge picture window? So at FRAME-WIDTH
> I would just enter the width and properties of the perimeter frame and then
> at GLASS-CONDUCTANCE enter the corrected U-factor for the system?
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> I did search this in onebuilding.org, but didn’t see it addressed.
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> Thanks!
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