Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I think it's going to be messy trying to do this here.
I'd like to propose we try to fill a collaborative Google spreadsheet located here.
Feel free to add your answers, or even engines or features.
If you are disagreeing with a previous rating, please leave a comment.
Also, I think the "Partial / User-Hook" is a bit confusing, since with a stretch everything can be a "partial" if you're creative enough (and/or not very concerned about accuracy).
I would draw the limit as to being stuff you do only in the modeling software. Using outputs of the model to calculate heat recovery for example shouldn't be qualified as "partial". Neither should calculating the performance of a facade using another software (e.g. THERM) to create a derated U-value.
But using a "dummy zone" in eQuest to control the temperature of a DOAS is a "partial" to me.
