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2025-10-09 07:44:09 -0500
rraustad
Coil cooling rate results higher than autosize values
cooling-capacity
unitary-system
energyplus
design-day
autosizing
82
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no
answers
1
vote
2025-07-22 11:11:00 -0500
QCeng
ERV and equipment sizing
openstudio
erv
design-day
zone-sizing
heating-load
102
views
no
answers
no
votes
2025-07-02 01:25:24 -0500
Pranav Deshmukh
Automatically Identifying the “True” Design Day Date to Match Known Peak Loads? [closed]
energyplus
geometry
solar-gain
peak-load
design-day
76
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no
answers
no
votes
2025-07-02 00:25:53 -0500
Pranav Deshmukh
True Peak Load Occurs on Unexpected Day — How to Identify Peak Date from Solar Gains and Geometry? [closed]
energyplus
geometry
solar-gain
peak-load
design-day
129
views
no
answers
1
vote
2025-06-30 12:15:30 -0500
Pranav Deshmukh
True Peak Load Occurs on Unexpected Day — How to Identify Peak Date from Solar Gains and Building Geometry?
energyplus
geometry
solar-gain
peak-load
design-day
194
views
no
answers
no
votes
2025-06-03 09:12:30 -0500
Anurag_G
Cooling Design Simulation – Does Running with Only Sensible Load (Default Option) Affect Results?
designbuilder
cooling-design
design-day
158
views
no
answers
no
votes
2025-05-08 12:18:59 -0500
PB
Create or modify a Design Day File
design-day
openstudio
energyplus
weather-file
77
views
no
answers
1
vote
2025-04-21 12:04:27 -0500
mep_engineer
modify weather file in doe prototype buildings
doe-prototype-buildings
energyplus
weather-file
design-day
commercial-prototype-building
382
views
no
answers
no
votes
2025-04-17 17:19:20 -0500
IanVG
Trace 3D Plus Schedule Recommendations
trane-trace
schedules
occupancy
design-day
energyplus
143
views
1
answer
1
vote
2024-11-12 14:08:33 -0500
Greg Estep
How to Choose the right cooling capacity?
openstudio
report
autosizing
hvac-load
design-day
196
views
1
answer
1
vote
2024-11-05 09:45:40 -0500
Neal Kruis
How does KIVA determine heat loss during design day periods?
energyplus
kiva
zone-sizing
design-day
ground-heat-transfer
244
views
1
answer
no
votes
2024-11-03 04:12:33 -0500
OlivierC37
How to adapt outdoor temperature to size HVAC systems
openstudio-application
outdoor-temperature
autosizing
design-day
170
views
no
answers
no
votes
2024-08-26 08:21:13 -0500
Aaron Boranian
ManageSizing: For a zone sizing run, there must be at least 1 Sizing:Zone input object. SimulationControl Zone Sizing option ignored.
openstudio
zone-sizing
thermal-zone
warning
design-day
113
views
no
answers
2
votes
2024-05-04 15:54:00 -0500
Joe Huang
EnergyPlus Weather program still uses ASHRAE 2013 design conditions. Are there any plans to update that to current ASHRAE 2021 weather conditions?
energyplus-weather-converter
design-day
epw-file
ashrae
64
views
no
answers
no
votes
2024-04-25 21:28:45 -0500
xchen
Coil:Heating sizing temperature not correct
sizing
energyplus
design-day
heating-coil
doas
63
views
no
answers
no
votes
2024-04-25 10:10:40 -0500
Bernard Kim
Having Trouble With Ideal Loads Air System [closed]
ideal-loads-air-system
energyplus
ladybug
zone-sizing
design-day
78
views
no
answers
1
vote
2024-04-23 18:28:46 -0500
Aaron Boranian
Sizing warning outside of sizing period
energyplus
sizing
ideal-loads-air-system
weather-file
design-day
573
views
1
answer
no
votes
2024-04-09 08:10:45 -0500
Aaron Boranian
Why do I get 'Cooling Design Supply Air Temperature=[25.00]' and 'Heating Design Supply Air Temperature=[20.00]' severe errors? ?
energyplus
troubleshooting
setpoint
design-day
supply-temperature
195
views
1
answer
1
vote
2024-04-02 19:48:48 -0500
Keigo
What are "Initial Design" and "Design" in the summary report when running Coincident sizing?
energyplus
plant-loop
autosizing
summary-report
design-day
430
views
no
answers
no
votes
2024-03-23 18:30:13 -0500
buildingman
Building's HVAC load profile is zero for heating (OpenStudio)
openstudio
heating-coil
heating-load
design-day
486
views
4
answers
2
votes
2024-02-26 07:30:38 -0500
Andy Tindale
System design days for climate changes
design-day
weather
climate
525
views
1
answer
no
votes
2024-02-21 11:35:28 -0500
rraustad
I am getting error like - In calculating the design coil UA for Coil:Cooling:Water
energyplus
openstudio
cooling-coil
warning
design-day
347
views
2
answers
2
votes
2024-02-07 14:41:17 -0500
JohnOnt
How to set Heating Design Temperature
resstock
buildstock-batch
design-day
heating-capacity
weather
2k
views
3
answers
3
votes
2024-02-06 12:44:23 -0500
JohnOnt
What is the Design Condition on the epw file?
weather-file
design-day
epw-file
2k
views
1
answer
no
votes
2023-11-16 14:34:29 -0500
Denis Bourgeois
Zone air supply temperature
zone-temperature
design-day
zone-sizing
supply-temperature
energyplus
141
views
1
answer
1
vote
2023-11-08 11:57:48 -0500
rraustad
How does ZoneCrossMixing object in zone affects sizing?
zone-mixing
sizing
energyplus
design-day
97
views
no
answers
1
vote
2023-10-06 18:38:45 -0500
xchen
Difference of zone heating load reported in HVAC Sizing Summary and Coil Sizing Summary
energyplus
heating-load
report
design-day
summary-report
447
views
no
answers
1
vote
2023-10-03 10:01:50 -0500
gulce
I used Urban Weather Generator for my weather data. Do I need to generate also the .ddy file?
design-day
openstudio
urban
weather-file
grasshopper
264
views
1
answer
1
vote
2023-09-19 09:36:25 -0500
shorowit
Questions related to the cooling load calculations and selecting the right equipment size.
beopt
cooling-load
sizing
performance-data
design-day
333
views
1
answer
no
votes
2023-09-08 07:32:59 -0500
epUser24
How can I run simulation for a specific duration in EnergyPlus?
energyplus
design-day
run-period
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