LEEDS Energy Simulation 1

[ALCDLI]

I am a new electrical engineering the industry of design engineering. My boss has given me the task of doing energy simulations on buildings that we will be designing. I am trying to find out what is the best software to use for this. I have been trying to use EQUEST but am having a hard time making the building model. if someone can please either tell me what is a better software to use or tell me how to model a building with floors that have different footprints i would really appreciate it.

 

[gepman]

There are probably more building simulations done in the HVACR forum than in the Electrical/Electronic Engineering Forum so future questions may be better asked there.

First I feel that eQUEST is probably the best software for what you are doing, especially since it is free. If you are in California you could use EnergyPro and there is a review of building energy modeling software at

http://www.eere.energy.gov/building...ergy_performance_simulation_programs_v1.0.pdf

I have heard good things about EnergyPlus.

If you can get to California there is free training on eQUEST at Southern California Edison's Customer Technology application Center (SCE CTAC). The course schedule is at

https://www.sce.com/ECR/EnergyCenterClassSchedule.aspx?ORG=CTAC,OTHER

It isn't the nicest location in Southern California but there are plenty of other things to go see and do once you are there.

The question that you are asking about multiple floors is covered in the 7th and Lane example in section 3 of the seminar training. You need to use the Design Developoment Wizard not the Schematic Wizard. This documenation is 6.9 MB otherwise I would post it.

You should also visit

http://doe2.com/equest/index.html

for more eQUEST information. There is an eQUEST user's group at

http://gard.com/ml/bldg-sim.htm.

If you can't find the section 3 of the seminar training then let me know and I will see if there is some place I can put it for you. The file name is Sec3-eQ-Example-Modeling.pdf