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I received this comment from Maria Mottillo:
This is part of our bTAP/TAO work - we are developing the models of archetype buildings that meet the NECB 2011 in OpenStudio, following the same methodology and working off of the same repository as NREL (openstudio_standards) – they are incorporating the A90.1 standards. These archetype “scripts” will be released under the standards project with NREL by this summer as part of our research. Rather than create the models the conventional way by hand, we are using databases and scripts to generate the models of the archetype buildings that meet NECB 2011.
The idea is that the bTAP/TAO platform will make it easier for codes committees to evaluate changes to codes and compare performance to international codes. While this database was set up to do archetype work, a clever coder could use this as a starting point for developing a reference case. This is not the intent of the research project right now.
