Modeling a manufacturing building

This cooling is a process load. 1. Table G3.1.1A does not apply. You must model this process identically in the Baseline unless you are trying to claim savings. If you are trying to claim savings then follow the exceptional calculation method. 2. You would need to justify any savings association with the free cooling as an exceptional calculation. A narrative should describe all Baseline and Proposed case assumptions included for this measure as well as the calculation methodology used to determine the projected savings. The narrative and energy savings should be reported separately from the other efficiency measures in Section 1.7 - Table EAp2-7. The Baseline case description should verify that the efficiency measure is not standard practice for a similar newly constructed facility. Baseline justification must be provided by referencing a recently published document (published within five years of the project registration date), utility program that incentivizes the equipment installed, or by documenting systems used to perform the same function in other newly constructed facilities (three facilities built within the past five years of the project registration date). Savings associated with the proposed case measure should also be justified with published or monitored data.

If it were me I would tell my client that I cannot complete the model without data on the equipment. If you try to claim savings for a component of a system but you do not have any real basis for that system I would certainly not accept it. The Baseline must be well defined and in this case you are making a big assumption. If you make it identical it should be accepted.

So again if you can define the baseline within an exceptional calculation method you can certainly pursue it. You will need to make the case for a baseline. Perhaps the manufacturer can help you with that instead of the client.