Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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NREL ZNE Ready 2017 is not a formal standard, nor is it related to ASHRAE. Instead, it is a set of efficiency parameters and details meant to represent buildings targeting ZNE, and is based on improvements to the ASHRAE 90.1-2013 standard. It is meant to support upcoming ZNE guides, similar to the Advanced Energy Design Guides released by ASHRAE several years ago.
There isn't yet a publically released measure to create a building from this template, but that may be released at a future date. For now, you make HVAC systems built to the ZNE Ready 2017 template with the NZEHVAC measure on BCL.
