The new LEED section 1.4 Tables ask for the total area for each 90
degree orientation, as well as the total glass area on each orientation.
Is there a quick way to get this info in HAP or is the only way to look
at each space input and manually total it up?
Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com
p: 610-369-3190
f: 610-369-3194
The new spreadsheet has instructions that say to enter the area for the
North-facing or nearest North-facing, East-facing or nearest East-facing
and so on... So I guess it's up to us to divvy up all of our Northeast,
Southeast, Southwest, and Northwest-facing exposures however we see fit
or whichever way works out to meeting the LEED restrictions of how much
glass area you're allowed on each exposure.
Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com
p: 610-369-3190
f: 610-369-3194
I think you're misunderstanding me. I am using HAP version 4.6.1 and am
well aware of the rotate building option and rotate space option. What
I'm talking about is a new LEED documentation requirement. The HAP LEED
Summary Report only lists the total wall area and glass area. The new
LEED documentation requires this total to be broken down to total wall
area and glass area facing North, total wall area and glass area facing
East, and so on... I was asking if anyone knew of a way to get HAP to
tell me this, but I've heard from the software developer and HAP's tech
support that this feature is not currently available, but it sounds like
it will be added in the future at least.
So I have the answer to my question. My additional comments were for the
benefit of the community to be informed about this new LEED
documentation requirement.
Regards,
Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com
p: 610-369-3190
f: 610-369-3194
Dear Matt,
Sorry for not helped you out. Anyway Thanks to inform us about the figure.Thanks
-Dedy Ayunda-
Subject: RE: [Hap-users] Total Wall area for each orientation
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:41:16 -0400
The building is still being rotated. So a north wall will be east, south, and west during one point in the simulation. It's really the total square footage that counts. They are requiring us to do extra work that is of no benefit. The extra time and money it will take to do this makes my stomach turn.
Does anyone know how many other software programs can extract the wall area by orientation?
Aren't there other ways to communicate with USGBC besides credit interpretation requests?
~Reba
I think the point is for us to show that we are inputting windows in the
same proportions between the baseline and proposed buildings (both
buildings have the same glass area on the North wall for example), and
it acts as a check for ourselves to catch any errors. But I agree it's
very time-consuming. After corresponding with HAP tech support and the
program developer I trust we will see automation of this added to HAP in
the near future. In the meantime it's going to take several hours of
additional time and expense to manually compute these subtotals.
Matt Scott
N.E. Fisher & Associates, Inc.
329 East Second St, 2nd Flr
Boyertown, PA 19512
e: mscott at nefisher.com
p: 610-369-3190
f: 610-369-3194