Congrats to all you youngsters. You should have tried doing DOE-2.1A back in 1984..
BTW, with our program's new found notoriety, NOW can we get an automatic VRF system in eQuest?
PLEASE ??
John R. Aulbach, PEStill shuffling along..

I want to share some happy news with our community!? ?This year, a team of eQUEST/doe2-centric volunteers joined forces to participate in the Lowdown Showdown building energy simulation competition.? After months of coordination and outstanding efforts from everyone involved, we presented our efforts towards the close of the SIMbuild 2016 conference in a condensed 15 minute presentation.? The audience/judges together voted and determined that, once again, the team representing our platform deserved an award!? This year we took home the ?Best Teamwork? award.? ?All the participating teams presented very interesting and divergent takes on tackling the same challenge:? Pushing an outpatient healthcare facility in Omaha, Nebraska down to a source EUI of Zero. ? ?We had 17 active participants (many are recognizable active participants here on the lists), making us one of the larger teams this year:
| NAME (alphabetical) | AFFILIATION |
| Arunabha Sau | Independent Contractor |
| David Griffin II | Arch|Nexus |
| Drew Morrison | Seventhwave |
| Greg Hildner | Schneider-Electric |
| Greg Swiss | Cyclone Energy Group |
| Iyabo lawal | Texas A&M |
| Jeremy Lerond | Madison Engineering PS |
| Joe Huang | White Box Technologies, Inc. |
| Kevin Madison | Madison Engineering PS |
| Manalee Jayant Nabar | Bright Power, Inc. |
| Matt Garlick | TBC, Inc. |
| Mrigesh Roy | Beyond Efficiency Inc. |
| Nick Caton | Schneider-Electric |
| Russell Knudson | Strang Inc. |
| Samuel Mason | Encompass Energy LLC |
| Sasikant Suddapalli | University of Florida |
| Surabhi Joshi | NORESCO |

?Here is a recent article published by IBPSA-USA covering the results:http://www.ibpsa.us/news/review-lowdown-showdown-simbuild-2016 ?Here is another writeup on ASHRAE?s conference website ? here you can find/download a copy of our team poster:https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-conferences/2016-ashrae-lowdown-showdown-results/best-teamwork ?Finally, here is a link to a page containing more of the details/context for the Lowdown Showdown event, if anyone is curious to learn more:https://www.ashrae.org/membership--conferences/conferences/ashrae-conferences/2016-ashrae-lowdown-showdown ?Great work to everyone involved! ?~NickNick Caton, P.E.
| ? Senior Energy Engineer
? Energy and Sustainability Services
? Schneider Electric | D??913.564.6361
M??785.410.3317
E??nicholas.caton at schneider-electric.com
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