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I am simulating a 6-floor, 50 000-square-meter hospital and I am struggling to understand how to behave with some zones. As far as I understood bathrooms and deposits are...

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I am looking for a way to speed up the simulation of a building. I found that a possible solution is to decrease the number of time steps per hour. Is it possible to set it...

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I am modelling a 60 000 m2 hospital using Design Builder. Unfortunately, the simulation of the whole building is extremely long, requiring up to a whole week. As a solution...

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a) I´m currently working in a Healtcare project LEED V3 2009 .I have been searching the requirements for this kind of building regarding to the Treatment of District or Campus...

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I need assistance in finding the subject Minimum Energy Performance Calculator that I am required to complete for Option 1. Whole Building Energy Simulation. The Credit Form...

Hi, my project is registered under LEED NC but it's a healthcare related question. I did pose the question there but no one could help. I am working on an assisted living project, and our owner...

the LEFEV parking to the LEED building only and exclude the surgical patients (for example, I don't know you're doing that credit). I recommend you read the campus guides. The forum is here: http://www.leeduser.com/topic/new-leed-guidance-campuses-and-multiple-bu... Okay, that link didn't work out so well. If you go to the Forum tab, there is a Hot Topic in LEED area to the right and you want the Multiple Building forum listed there. Here's the newest...

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Can we use air-cooled chillers for the HVAC system and still be able to follow Option 3?

Thank you.

GH

Tristan Roberts Representative Vermont House of Representatives LEEDuser Expert 11477 thumbs up February 13, 2013- 3:15 pm Marcus answered this question on our CS forum:Section G3.1.1 provides guidance on creating thermal blocks (systems 1- 4) or whole floor systems (5- 8) for the baseline system. Table G3.1- 7 Proposed provides guidance on creating thermal blocks in the Proposed model based on the actual design of the system zoning.You could use the auto zone function to create thermal zones in undefined tenant spaces but in most cases the thermal zones are based on the design of the system...