Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I believe hotels are considered "residential" (check the IECC definitions), at least according to 90.1 (I don't have a copy of IECC handy). So, you could model the baseline as a System 8. As far as codes go for baseline systems, they don't have to "make sense", they're fake buildings.
__90.1-2019__
___residential:___ spaces in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons, and fire stations.
| | 2 | No.2 Revision |
I believe hotels are considered "residential" (check the IECC definitions), "residential", at least according to 90.1 (I (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a copy of IECC handy). So, you could model the baseline as a System 8.
As far as codes go for baseline systems, they don't have to "make sense", they're fake buildings. buildings.
__90.1-2019__
___residential:___ spaces in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons, and fire stations.
| | 3 | No.3 Revision |
I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a copy handy). So, you could model the baseline as a System 8.
As far as codes go for baseline systems, they don't have to "make sense", they're fake buildings.
__90.1-2019__90.1-2019
___residential:___residential: spaces in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons, and fire stations.
| | 4 | No.4 Revision |
I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a copy handy). So, you could model the baseline as a System 8.
As far as codes go for baseline systems, they Baseline systems don't have to "make sense", make sense, they're fake buildings.
90.1-2019
residential: spaces in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons, and fire stations.
| | 5 | No.5 Revision |
I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a copy handy). So, you could model the baseline as a System 8.
Baseline systems don't have to make sense, they're fake buildings.buildings. For example, in 90.1 many multi-zone systems are zoned by floor (i.e. horizontally or one AHU per floor), which isn't how they're typically zoned in practice (usually vertically or east-west or north-south).
90.1-2019
residential: spaces in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons, and fire stations.
| | 6 | No.6 Revision |
I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check Hotels >3 stories fall under Group R occupancy per the IECC definitions, I don't have a copy handy). IBC. So, you could model the baseline as a System 8.
Baseline systems don't have to make sense, they're fake buildings. For example, in 90.1 many multi-zone systems are zoned by floor (i.e. horizontally or one AHU per floor), which isn't how they're typically zoned in practice (usually vertically or east-west or north-south).
90.1-2019GROUP R. Buildings or portions of buildings that contain
any of the following occupancies as established in the International
Building Code:
residential:310.2 Residential Group R-1. spaces Residential Group R-1 occupancies containing sleeping units where the occupants are primarily transient in buildings used primarily for living and sleeping. Residential spaces
include, but are not limited to, dwelling units, hotel/motel guest rooms, dormitories, nursing
homes, patient rooms in hospitals, lodging houses, fraternity/sorority houses, hostels, prisons,
and fire stations.nature, including:
| | 7 | No.7 Revision |
Hotels >3 stories fall under Group R occupancy per the IBC. So, you could model the baseline as a System 8. 8 (PTHP).
GROUP R. Buildings or portions of buildings that contain any of the following occupancies as established in the International Building Code:
310.2 Residential Group R-1. Residential Group R-1 occupancies containing sleeping units where the occupants are primarily transient in nature, including:
