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Is eQuest finished? The website is down again, and with what seems like reduced support over the last few years, it seem

Is eQuest finished? The website is down again, and with what seems like reduced support over the last few years, is eQue

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

I do a lot of federal projects and they require a life cycle cost of solar hot water. In the past I have used Watsun, but it appears that NRCan no longer supports the software. Does anyone have any recommendations on what software I should use to simulate solar hot water systems?

Are you comparing the total VRF cooling load against the VAV AHU cooling load? If you run the system sizing report that

It sounds like you haven't set the airflow rates for each of the fan coil units. For a proposed LEED model the flow rat

What to use to model solar hot water? I do a lot of federal projects and they require a life cycle cost of solar hot wat

My issue is that it is clearly defined as a data center and the reviewer says this, "Note that data centers are required to be classified as active storage spaces with an interior lighting power density of 0.8 W/SF." I disagree with the comment and think that data centers should be classified as electrical/mechanical as you mention, but the comment says they are 'required' to be active storage. I'm wondering where could this requirement be coming from?

I am working on a project that is LEED version 3 BD+C, and I got the review comment from the LEED reviewer for EAp2 that for the data center space the baseline lighting power density is required to be 0.8 because it's an active storage space, where I had 1.5 w/sf for a mech/elect space. The reviewer did not give a source for the requirement. Does anyone know of an official reference that gives this requirement? I don't personally think that active storage is an appropriate choice for the space, and I am considering keeping my original LPD if there's no official documentation requiring the active storage LPD.

I am currently working in equest making several energy models at the wizard level. Occasionally when I'm working in the wizard and I hit the finish button instead of loading the BD file an error pops up that says, "Error opening file: blahblah.pd2" and then there's nothing in the file. If I hit the wizard button it brings up the prompt for starting a new building. If I check the pd2 file in windows explorer it shows an empty file, 0.0 kilobytes. This has only happened to me with eQuest 3.5, not previous versions, and it happens about 1 in every 10 models. I have tried reinstalling, including deleting all of the equest files from my computer but nothing has stopped this from happening. Anyone have any suggestions? Anyone else experienced this? I've lost several hours of work to it now, so I'd love to get it resolved.