[Equest-users] Gated Community & Roof reflectivity

[Yusuf Turab]

Hello Group

             I have just started working on my first energy modeling
project. I have two questions:

   - How do I model roof reflectivity. I want to model a roof of 4 inch
   concrete with 1 inch stucco at the bottom and top and cover the roof with
   cool roof tiles. I am not sure how I can account for the energy efficiency
   gains compared to base case through a high SRI roof.
   - I am trying to model a large gated community with 330 villas and 7
   other common buildings. As someone suggested on this group I am modeling
   each building type separately and using excel to come up with a total
   energy usage. But I am not sure how to model the street lighting and
   landscape lighting at the exteriors. We plan to use solar street lights and
   I want to demonstrate the savings through use of solar energy.

Many Thanks

Yusuf Turab



On 10 April 2012 00:32, nirupama lakshminarasimhan <
nirupamalnarasimhan at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am modeling a big public school with a lot of systems and custom
> windows. The equest file we have right now is taking too long to load. I've
> tried opening it from different locations- the default equest project
> folder on C: , the public server, external HDD, etc. It is just too slow in
> "importing project data" when it opens. The last time this happened, it was
> taking too long to load the BDL file and I ended up deleting a host of
> systems and starting from scratch. All my files- the .inp, .pd2, etc are in
> the same path. I just cannot get it to work faster. I'm trying to calibrate
> the model and it is an awfully long wait for each simulation. Does someone
> have any thoughts on how I could get this to work faster?
>
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Nirupama
>
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