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NC-2009 EAp2:Minimum Energy Performance

LEEDuser request for Upload EAp2-16 sample report

Dear LEEDuser, Could we please have a sample summary report for this upload? Kind regards, Jean

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Mon, 12/03/2012 - 15:36

EAp2-16 is for other software not covered in EAp2-11 to EAp2-15. So the reports will vary depending on the software. In general you will need summary output reports to verify the results reported in the form. Summary input reports are supposed to verify the major modeling inputs. No need to verify them all, samples are fine in many cases.

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:12

mmm...trnsys doesn't really have input or output summary reports. You can output results. I have setup the models such that most parameters of the equipment can be printed out, but it will print out every timestep. beyond that there is the dck file (input file), but with a model this large and complicated, it will be useless to a reviewer. Even my results have to be cobbled together in excel sheets. I propose to summarize the inputs as they are in the model...but it is not automated in anyway or generated in anyway. The outputs are the results...so that is a bit double. Any thoughts?

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 20:42

The purpose of providing the summary input reports is to verify that you have modeled what you said you have modeled in Table 1.4. Believe it or not many models claim an input in Table 1.4 that has not been correctly modeled in the software. If you do not submit any (or useless) summary input reports then the reviewer will either ask you for some or take you at your word and review only the Table 1.4 data. You could supplement the information provided in Table 1.4 with more details in a spreadsheet created from the models. For example, provide a spreadsheet that contains each baseline system with is corresponding air flows and fan power and/or perhaps a breakdown of lighting power density by space, etc.

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