Hello all,

I am currently working on an apartment building here in California and trying to run the T24 compliance portion of eQUEST. I have run into an error that I cannot solve and have not seen before in the past T24 compliance models our firm has completed.

There is a rules evaluation error that occurs and says: "Error Writing BDL standard File" Which part of the BDL are we talking about here? Is there a way to check this? Within the eQUEST module it says there are no BDL errors if I click the little blue button with the red check mark next to the simulation buttons.

I looked through the BDL code and nothing stands out as I scroll through it until I get to the bottom. There are a bunch of warnings stating: *WARNING***Custom weighting factors cannot be calculated for SPACE
S~zone-A6CO13 because it has furniture but no valid floor. ASHRAE
weighting factors with floor weight of 70 lb/ft2 (342 kg/m2) will be
used instead. If floor is an exterior wall, underground surface or
interior wall defined in this space be sure tilt = 180. If floor is
an interior wall defined in an adjacent space be sure tilt = 0.

There are one of these for each zone. However both my LEED model version for this project (which works fine) and our past compliance models have had the same warnings for each space.

Also in my problematic compliance model there are two "cautions" that state:
-CAUTION--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NO HEATING EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN DEFINED
-CAUTION--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------NO COOLING EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN DEFINED

These are also shown in my LEED version model even though it runs and calculates heating and cooling loads. However these "cautions" do not show up un our past compliance models.

I am thinking the caution about no heating and cooling equip is happening because the model stops computing before it gets the chance to compute the heating and cooling equip because it stops for some other reason prior to that.

I am kind of on a time crunch to get this completed so any thoughts, opinions or suggestions they are greatly appreciated. I would be happy to answer any further questions via email or phone and would be happy to send you my .inp file, .pd2 file and my .bdl file if you want to take a look yourself.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Ross Farris