eQuest vs. CAN-Quest
I have a fairly basic question for anybody familiar with using CAN-Quest to comply with NECB 2011. When running a compliance simulation in eQuest, you have your proposed building baseline design, and the ASHRAE 90.1 reference building baseline design (rotated in 4 different directions). However, in CAN-Quest it seems as though there are three different simulation outputs: baseline design, NECB Proposed Building, and NECB Reference Building. When I simulate the energy performance (not a compliance run), the output is called the baseline design. When I perform a compliance run, I obtain the NECB proposed building and NECB reference building results. I'm under the assumption that the NECB reference building is the building that is generated to be compliant with NECB 2011. It was my understanding that the initially simulated baseline design was my proposed building, but there are large discrepancies between the energy performances of the baseline design and the NECB proposed building. My question is what is the difference between the NECB proposed building that gets generated during the compliance run and the baseline design that is created through user inputs?
