Activity Areas Allocation in eQuest

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Hey all,

On the Activity Areas Allocation screen in eQuest I am trying to understand the under the Assign First To... section; I have only two Activity Areas, a dwelling unit and a corridor, and when I check to assign the dwelling unit to perimeter and the corridor to the core and then go to the next screen (Zone Group Definitions), it gives that 100% of the perimeter is the dwelling unit (as it should), but it gives that only 76.8% of the core is corridor (when it should be 100%) and 23.2% is dwelling unit (when it should be 0%). Does anybody know why it does this? Thanks,

-Dan

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Folks:

If you TRULY want modeling help, consider putting your .pd2 and .inp
files in with your request. Sometimes, the questions are paragraphs
long. For those of us actually trying to earn a living, we don't have 2
hours to piece together what we THINK you mean. A visual is MOST
helpful.

And some of us haven't yet had our 2nd cup of coffee.

Thank you.

John

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I will add to John's email without his permission, and I have had 2 cups
of tea. If you keep sending your emails to both bldg-sim and
equest-users mailing lists I won't answer your questions at all.

Carol

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Folks:

If you TRULY want modeling help, consider putting your .pd2 and .inp
files in with your request. Sometimes, the questions are paragraphs
long. For those of us actually trying to earn a living, we don't have 2
hours to piece together what we THINK you mean. A visual is MOST
helpful.

And some of us haven't yet had our 2nd cup of coffee.

Thank you.

John

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I will add to John's email without his permission, and I have had 2 cups
of tea. If you keep sending your emails to both bldg-sim and
equest-users mailing lists I won't answer your questions at all.

Carol

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My understanding is that Equest decides where the division between
perimeter & core is - it is not determined by the placement of your
interior walls. I believe this is done because the perimeter & core
zones are used for assessing the amount of daylighting penetration as
well as differences in heat loss to the exterior of the envelope. There
is a maximum depth to the perimeter zone, and if the depth of your
apartments exceeds that depth then part of the apartments will be
assumed to be part of the core zone, meaning they'll have higher
lighting needs (barring the use of skylights), and lower heating needs
in winter but higher cooling needs in summer. Irregardless of where you
place your interior walls, there is little you can do to increase the
depth of daylighting penetration into a building (solatubes get modeled
as skylights, but fiber optic sunlight distribution & mirror
lightshelves aren't easily modeled yet), so Equest's perimeter
assumptions make sense. Don't worry, it is modeling your project
correctly.
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Christina A. Snyder

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Hi;

Could I suggest a Open SuSE Linux style Dot Org effort to produce web
video training clips ??
We could post them somewhere... That way we don't have to travel, The
experts don't have to travel,
and everybody gets bumped up 2 to 3 levels so we're all not stuck "in
first gear"

The Energy+ guys are just getting started on this kind of idea.........
but it is live only, and sporadic.

We , mid level modelers , could use a regular say every two weeks video
that is 30 minutes to 60 minutes and save the old ones......

We could also use parsing programs to cut common known mistakes in input
format although this is more of an Energy + problem.

John R Ross III PE

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