Welcome to thee Energy-models.com presentation of TRACE 700 for LEED
As promised, we are going to do our best to work in the program as much as possible, but there are things we have to cover in the slides. Don’t worry, we only have about 40 slides and we will cover most of them in the first hour.
Many of you may be accustomed to asking question on the spot, but i’ve found that since what we are doing is logical, I’ve often found that questions are often answered in the next slide or two. Not to mention, it’s tough to present a webinar while questions are popping up. So please save the questions for designated times.
If you’re like me, you might take so many notes that it gets in the way of your learning. We will be providing an ample amount of notes in the cheat sheet. Plus the presentation will be recorded and available to you later. Knowing that, you may of course take notes as you please, but for people like myself, it may help you to know that, most of the notes will be available to you in the downloadable cheat sheet.
In addition to the cheat sheet, the trace files we are working on today are downloadable along with the details from the example file, so I think it would be counterproductive to attempt to frantically follow along in TRACE
That said let’s move on
As you may know, my name is Bob Fassbender. Some of you may even have spoke with me given that I worked for Trane CDS for a bit over 3 years. I’ve taught this course and other similar courses in something like 36 states. I am trying to cut back on my travel, but I would like to add Hawaii to that list of states….
Anyway, while at CDS I travelled to various locations teaching TRACE and made a lot of observations about what works and doesn’t work. So, after I left CDS, I helped start energy-models.com.
I also continue to perform LEED models in TRACE 700, so I know how daunting modeling for LEED can be. That said, we can move.
Many of you have asked about breaking down the continuing education in this course, and we want to clarify the continuing education that you signed up for.
This course itself will yield 7 professional hours. Unfortunately, it took too long to get the course reviewed by GBCI so it does not qualify for the GBCI CE hours. When we put this recording online, we will get it approved.
However, everyone who signed up for this course was also automatically enrolled in TRACE 700 online, which is a two day course. This course yields 14 pdh’s and also 14 GBCI CE hours which is more GBCI CE hours than most people need in any specific category.
One of the downsides about Continuing education credits is that we have to stick to a protocol, so while we are trying to limit the number of the slides, some slides are required, such as “What this course covers”.
Okay, so what does this course cover?
Basically, in this course we are going to create a TRACE 700 file for LEED EAc1/p2. The main part of this, or the most complicated part that is, is creating the baseline building, which will be a large part of our focus.
We are also going to cover troubleshooting, as well as what reports to submit.
Finally, we will cover a few logistical issues along the way, such as time and cost estimation.
We will briefly cover estimating the total number of LEED points.
There are a few things that would be helpful to know already at this point, such as general TRACE use.
You should know what I mean by and “archive” file, and also what we mean by “libraries”
However, the important part of today’s training is the LEED process and how it is implemented in TRACE. If you need a refresh on TRACE 700 operations, you may want to complet or at least review the TRACE 700 online training which covers almost everything you need to know for general TRACE operation
So in short, after this course, you should be able to model a LEED building in TRACE 700, troubleshoot it, and have a pretty good idea of the resources it takes to model for LEED
With all of that said, let’s jump into our Crash course, or maybe we should call this a highlight reel.