Pitched Roof

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Greetings-
I am modeling a 2 story office, wood framed construction. I selected a 45? pitched roof. The model (EQuest 3.63) is not showing any conductive roof losses. I have no insulation choosen.

Do I need to attribute a space association or something?

Regards,W. Peter Anderson, P.E

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Peter:

Do you have a plenum? The roof loads may be going in there.

John Aulbach

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Also, if you look at pitched roofs in the 3D mode, you'll notice that
they're light colored (not dark). This means that eQuest classifies them as
"walls" and they are counted as walls in the "details of exterior spaces"
summary. Maybe this is where your "roof" heat loss is going too.

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John-
No, I took it out. Even as such, the Building Peak heating load is not
nearly half of what a building of this size would be.

Thanks for responding.
Peter

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Karen-
The roofs were grey, I was curious about that. One section (a wing) had a flat roof and it was dark. As I reviewed the LS_B Report only that wing registered a roof load, so thats what got me started.

Thanks,
Peter

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