Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I found the ACTIVITY_SCH to be 120 for all hours in https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/46861.pdf. We have not studied the impacts of such assumptions during the DOE Prototype Model development. I don't think we have enough data to define the activity levels by space type. The importance of occupancy schedule inputs by space type is higher order of magnitude than activity levels and it being studied by the BEM researchers. If people need to study occupancy comfort and behaviors using the models, they may use the "autocalculate" option along with careful review or revisions of the occupancy schedules. Otherwise, for typical EEM evaluations, the current assumptions are probably sufficient.
