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Room exhaust fan energy process or not?

NC-2009 EAc1:Optimize Energy Performance
posted by  Haojie Wang  on 

I remember seeing from somewhere that if the exhaust fan is not interlocked with the HVAC, it should be considered a process load and modeled the same in proposed and baseline.

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Tue Mar 24, 2015, 5:32 pm

Laboratory 90.1 Modeling

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posted by  Victoria Watson  on 

Hi, I am modeling a laboratory which has a small area of office space for LEED and wanted to check a couple of approaches: 1) The engineers have informed me that the lab has to be a once through sy

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Wed Mar 4, 2015, 7:52 pm

How does LEED view buildings designed per UFC?

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posted by  Kevin O'Brien  on 

Can anyone advise how I should go about running the energy model for a building whose supply air & outside air quantities are being driven not by actual load, but by Unified facilities Criteria

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Wed Mar 4, 2015, 6:41 pm

Scandinavian DES protocol

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posted by  Qian Tang  on 

Hello, We are working on a LEED NC 2009 project in Germany with DES which the thermal plants consist 5 boilers and a cogenerator. We are thinking to follow the Scandinavian DES protocol to replace

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Thu Feb 5, 2015, 8:30 am

DES Option 2 – CHP with absorption chiller

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posted by  Qian Tang  on 

Hello, We are working on a LEED NC 2009 project with DES which the thermal plants consist except boilers and electric chillers also a cogenerator and an absorption chiller. We are thinking to follo

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Mon Feb 2, 2015, 10:47 am

Data Center in on Office building Energy Modelling Calculations

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posted by  ESRA OZKONUKSEVER  on 

Hi all, We re currently working on an office building project of 10.000 square meters and within the building there is a data center as big as 150 square meters. we are plannig to apply v2009 NC.

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Fri Jan 23, 2015, 2:36 pm

Comms/ data room cooling - Process Energy for LEED

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posted by  Victoria Watson  on 

Hi all, I am working on a project where the CRAC unit manufacturers have said they don't need to comply with the efficiency requirements of ASHRAE 90.1 for a data room and comms rooms air conditio

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Tue Nov 11, 2014, 1:59 pm

How to model Unit Heaters in Baseline model

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posted by  Dónal O'Connor  on 

To Whom It May Concern: I'm looking for guidance on how unit heaters, radiant panels and electric heaters that are in the proposed design are modeled in the baseline building.

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Sat Nov 8, 2014, 10:43 pm

System 7 - Constant Volume - 24/7 spaces

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posted by  Victoria Watson  on 

Hi, I am classifying my 24/7 elec/comms rooms under G3.1.1 Exception b and therefore modeling them with System 3 - Constant volume packaged roof top air conditioner.

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Tue Nov 4, 2014, 2:54 pm

Microturbines and gas rates for energy modeling

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posted by  Sherman Aronson  on 

For a high rise project the client is considering investing in micro-turbines to generate electrical power on site from natural gas.

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Mon Nov 3, 2014, 1:51 pm