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2024-04-03 10:46:44 -0500 answered a question Which unit is more appropriate for examining annual HVAC energy consumption, watts or joules?

Watt is a power unit Joules is energy unit Watts.-hour is also one energy unit

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2023-08-05 10:43:56 -0500 edited answer Which variable is more appropriate for shading control?

I use these two variables (my shading control is “OnIfHighSolarOnWindows”) Surface Outside Face Incident Solar radiatio

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2023-08-05 10:42:58 -0500 answered a question Which variable is more appropriate for shading control?

I use these two variables (my shading control is “OnIfHighSolarOnWindows”) Surface Outside Face Incident Solar radiation

2023-07-17 04:18:00 -0500 edited answer How to simulated Ground tempertures?

I’ve written some measures to use different methods for heat ground transmission Cambiar temperature del terreno Cerra

2023-07-17 04:16:56 -0500 answered a question How to simulated Ground tempertures?

I’ve written some measures to use different methods for heat ground transmission Cambiar temperature del terreno Cerram

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2023-06-26 10:31:18 -0500 answered a question Rename Wall based on Space Measure

See on BCL "RenameSpaceSurfacesBasedonParentSpaceandOrientation"

2023-04-11 11:52:40 -0500 edited answer Adding EnergyPlus components to OpenStudio

I wrote an E+ mesure to introduce an Earth Tube (pozo canadiense in Spanish) from OpenStudio using it is not necessary t

2023-04-11 11:51:32 -0500 answered a question Adding EnergyPlus components to OpenStudio

I wrote an E+ mesure to introduce an Herth Tube (pozo canadiense in Spanish) from OpenStudio using it is not necessary t

2023-04-05 11:04:24 -0500 answered a question Some beginner's doubts

I’ve always the same warnings “Always On.. Off..” even if these schedules are not introduced but the models run perfectl

2023-02-10 09:35:56 -0500 asked a question Zone Air Contaminant Balance in OSapp

Zone Air Contaminant Balance in OSapp In OpenStudio Application v 1.4 if in Simulation settings / Zone air contaminant b

2022-07-14 05:03:47 -0500 asked a question Importin idf and ifc files

Importin idf and ifc files More and more many software tools are able to produce IDF or IFC files but there is no way (o

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2022-06-27 06:37:32 -0500 answered a question How calculate time of high CO2 concentration?

In my opinion you shall report the CO2 concentration at hourly interval and then using excel you can easily identify whe

2021-12-14 10:10:41 -0500 asked a question Source position in Internal Source Construction

Source position in Internal Source Construction Apparently in OS when a new Internal Source construction is added it ass

2021-12-14 10:10:38 -0500 asked a question Source position in Internal Source Construction

Source position in Internal Source Construction Apparently in OS when a new Internal Source construction is added it ass

2021-12-14 10:10:32 -0500 asked a question Source position in Internal Source Construction

Source position in Internal Source Construction Apparently in OS when a new Internal Source construction is added it ass

2021-07-29 08:59:39 -0500 commented answer group operation in energyplus

It’s also possible to run multiple weather files using Jeplus software

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2021-05-15 04:49:28 -0500 edited answer OpenStudio Shading Surface Reflectance

It seems there is a space below the roof and probably some insulation exists between the roof and the conditioned spaces

2021-05-15 04:48:23 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio Shading Surface Reflectance

It seems there is a space below the roof and probably some insulation exists between the roof and the conditioned spaces

2020-11-03 11:28:49 -0500 answered a question How do I change the material of one single wall?

In each of your simulation you need to modify the construction introducing the variable material It’s possible to do it

2020-11-03 11:25:19 -0500 answered a question Different exterior walls in a building

Yes. You only need to assign for each Surface the appropriate construction.

2020-06-22 06:58:18 -0500 commented answer How to model a green facade in openstudio using a Building Shading Object?

According to my calculations there is no difference if you don’t modify View factor to ground to 0.1 and Convective coe

2019-10-28 07:36:11 -0500 commented answer Estimation of Envelope/Fabric load for an unconditioned and unoccupied thermal zone

In my opinion "door" surfaces are neglected in this measure

2019-06-22 11:10:15 -0500 answered a question Exterior Vented Cavity

Insulation on the clading is not efective Vented cavity bypass the insulation product

2018-11-12 03:17:07 -0500 commented answer Assign colors to constructions to Render By Construction in OpenStudio

I never reached to modify directly the text file. ¿can you explain better how to do it? I agree the west way is to defin

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2018-09-05 02:03:37 -0500 answered a question Assign colors to constructions to Render By Construction in OpenStudio

Unfortunately the proposed procedure only works if the colour is already different and it’s not possible to change the c

2017-11-03 02:30:16 -0500 answered a question OpenStudio Measure for user-defined Ground Temperatures

Other possibilty is create an idf file with ground temperatures and use the Inject idf measure.

2017-10-11 10:25:24 -0500 commented question Illuminance maps

The sql file already exists and can be viewed using Resultsviewer but not (or at minium I don't know how) using Dview

2017-10-11 05:10:02 -0500 commented question Illuminance maps

Under Openstudio 2.2 the iluminance map can be viewed using the Resultsviewer application it is not the case using DView

2017-10-10 07:50:08 -0500 asked a question Illuminance maps

Illuminance maps Under OpenStudio 2.3 I'm not abale to obtain the results for iluminance maps

2017-09-16 04:46:35 -0500 edited answer eplaunch error while oppening idf files

Try to open eplainch go to browse and select the file insteated to double clik on the file

2017-09-16 04:46:20 -0500 answered a question eplaunch error while oppening idf files

Tru to open eplainch go to browse and select the file insteated to double clik on the file

2017-01-31 03:10:38 -0500 answered a question How to model ventilated walls and ventilated roofs?

As far as I know the only way is to use "External natural vented cavity" objects You need to modify the idf file manually (or perhaps if you are able to produce a measure to do it)

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2016-02-24 15:08:20 -0500 commented answer OS 1.10 Inspector and encoding

Yes but in this case you can not créate or delete compact schedules Clearlly Version 1.10 is worse than 1.9!!

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2016-02-14 03:35:49 -0500 asked a question Render by constructions

In OS 1.10 the render by constructions doesn’t work. It was helpful to verify the layers on each construction selecting the surface and using the object inspector. How can I use this feature?

2015-12-22 05:52:05 -0500 commented answer Constructions and materials Open Studio 1.10

This issue is already posted. See:

Boiler and baseboard system [closed] and The Plant equipment control scheme error and probablly other ones?

2015-12-21 05:18:48 -0500 commented answer Constructions and materials Open Studio 1.10

I’m very disappointed regarding this lost functionality. At every new release we lose something. In version 1.9 was the plant equipment operation scheme In version 1.10 materials / constructions and Schedules are not anymore editable Be hope in version 1.11 these functions will reappear

2015-12-19 11:04:10 -0500 asked a question Constructions and materials Open Studio 1.10

I can not see any material neither construction in inspector option in sketchup pluguin Is it normal?

2015-10-06 06:13:25 -0500 commented question The Plant equipment control scheme error

I’ve found the same problem with Boiler/baseboard system

2015-10-06 06:12:43 -0500 commented answer The Plant equipment control scheme error

I’ve found the same problem with Boiler/baseboard system

2015-10-05 10:27:06 -0500 answered a question The Plant equipment control scheme error

I’ve found the same problem with Boiler/baseboard system