[Equest-users] Modeling Leed Gold Building

[Sami, Vikram]

The site has a dash in it (energy-models.com). The one Jeremiah provided is a link to a modeling agency - possibly more entertaining, but less informative.  :)

As an aside - the LEED rating is something that is aawarded at the end of design, so you are not modeling a LEED Gold building (unless its already been awarded and you are modeling it for fun). If you are going for LEED Gold Certification, then you probably need a fair amount of energy credits. You are probably looking at getting more than just the 1 point you get from using the AEDG or the 3 points you get from the Advanced Buildings Benchmark. You will need a full simulation.

eQUEST is one of many programs that you can use to get you the required results.

Caveat: If you haven't done this before, you might want to hire a consultant to run the model for you until you get a certain level of expertise in understanding building simulation models.


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ASHRAE 2007 is the baseline, LEED gold would involve high percentage energy savings based on cost for proposed building when compared to baseline. I would suggest you use ASHRAE 189.1, and one of the advanced energy design guides to base your golden design model upon. http://www.ashrae.org/standards-research--technology/advanced-energy-design-guides (I suggest you find the 30% guide on ASHRAE's site as the 50% may be to rich for your clients blood.)  Also there is a site called energymodels.com<http://energymodels.com> that has some good classes I suggest you to look into.



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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Fakeha Sehar <fakeha_s at yahoo.com<mailto:fakeha_s at yahoo.com>> wrote:
Hi,

I want to model a Leed Gold medium-sized office building and simulate it to get annual, monthly and daily electricity consumption profiles. I plan on using eQuest software for this purpose. How do I start about modeling the Leed Gold building? I hear that ASHRAE 90.1.2007 can serve as a guideline. eQuest software requires various building parameters as input, would this document be helpful or any other?
Please advise.

Regards
Fakeha


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