[Equest-users] How to create multiple homes within a community

[Pasha Korber-Gonzalez]

Yusuf--eQuest has the ability to create a "campus" of buildings within one
file.   You just have to make sure that your XYZ coordinates for each
building and/or building shell are appropriate within the site coordinates
so that you don't inadvertantly stack one house on top of the other....

If your DWG files are laid out accordingly to the site plans then you
should be able to just "trace" each individual house into the EQuest wizard
without issue.   I suggest building each house as one-shell and then you
can label them with individual names or addresses.   If they are identical
in size and shape then you can just import one shell and then copy them
into the other buildings and adjust thier position within the site
coordinates by adjusting the values of each shell in the wizard.

At some point I anticipate that you will have to move past the wizard mode
and into DD edit mode especially if you are going to define the central
plant characteristics serving the site.

If this isn't completely clear to you then feel free to email back and we
can walk through more of the details together.

Cheers,
Pasha

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Michael Wilson <mwilson at enerficiency.ca>wrote:

> Hi Yusuf. I would suggest a couple of ways of doing this. ****
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> **1.       **Create each building and villa as a separate project. Then
> add up the results in a spreadsheet, multiplying for the number of each
> villa. If the villas are not all the same orientation, you’ll need to
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> **2.       **If for some reason you need everything in one model (e.g.
> they are served by a central plant, or a common utility rate structure that
> can’t be approximated individually), then its a bit more complicated. Save
> the villas with different orientations as separate projects as well. Then
> use shell multiplier to multiply each  villa by the appropriate amount.
> Make sure you use a different shell component prefix and HVAC component
> prefix for each project. The use import to import each project into a
> common project. ****
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> *From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
> equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Yusuf Turab
> *Sent:* February-08-12 2:34 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] How to create multiple homes within a community*
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> Dear Members
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>                  I am new to e-quest and I find it difficult to understand
> how I can model a large housing community. We are trying to model a project
> which has 325 villas of 6 different types and 5 different common facilities
> making it 11 different types of buildings scattered in different parts of
> the site. I understand that the DD wizard allows one to model multiple
> shells, how do I go about doing this for a 25 acre plot. Also what is the
> best zoning pattern to be followed when modelling individual single storied
> homes. Many Thanks.
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> Yusuf Turab
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