Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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OpenStudio 1.5.0 does not have support for EnergyPlus 8.2. I don't have a timeframe for when we will add support for 8.2, but in the mean time if you want to use slab and basement calculations in OpenStudio I did just push a few new measures to the Building Component Library. They are EnergyPlus measures that uses the slab and basement pre-processor to calculate ground temperatures. While not the exact same functionality you get in EnergyPlus 8.2 it will give you much of that functionality. Below is a link to the measures. If you search BCL from the OpenStudio application you will find this under "Envelope/Opaque" in the tree.
Slab and Basement Search on BCL
While most of the AEDG measures only require OpenStudio 1.3 or later, this one does require 1.5. Here is a screenshot. The two that currently exist are for school and office and have hard coded inputs for soil conditions, and use the AEDG guidance for slab conditions. You could adapt it to be a more generic slab or basement measure with all inputs exposed.
Another approach if you want to use EnergyPlus 8.2 today is to export to an IDF from the file menu in the OpenStudio application and then use tools that ship with EnergyPlus to upgrade it to an 8.2 file to add features unique to 8.2. This is of course not an ideal workflow but may still be useful.
David
