Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I'll give the first "it depends" answer. For early design I think it makes sense to build the baseline first, whereas for construction phase compliance modeling I think building the proposed model and then auto-generating the baseline makes more sense and is more efficient.
In OpenStudio, my preferred tool, auto-generating a baseline requires writing and running several measures (scripts) so in my opinion it's not quite as efficient as other tools for consulting.
