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~~My vote is for Gitter because the OS and EP development takes place nearby on GitHub and the majority of the questions

@ianvg Slack and Discord are the current "active" ones. @julien marrec is the Slack Invite bot still working?

@ianvg Slack and Discord are the current "active" ones. @julien marrec is the Slack Invite bot working still?

(Rather than creating a new question I think it is better to continue here for future reference.) I managed to change t

@mortar io great, report back with your results.

No, the DistrictCooling (and DistrictHeating) objects don't have fields for efficiency, so you could post-process the en

Yeah Michael Witte mentioned that in the issue I linked above, which I haven't used. Reading the docs it appears that it

No, the DistrictCooling (and DistrictHeating) objects don't have fields for efficiency, so you could post-process the en

What have you tried? Have you read through the website? Looks like the IGDB are Microsoft Data Base files that can be op

@liza lee it is saying that by generalizing the efficiency of heating and cooling systems. A COP of 3.0 is basically an

@Liza Lee it's mentioned here. https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/22-2/input-output-reference/group-zone-forced-air-

@Liza Lee it is here. https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/22-2/input-output-reference/group-zone-forced-air-units.htm

@Liza Lee - it is here. https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/22-2/input-output-reference/group-zone-forced-air-units.h

@Liza Lee - it is. This component can be thought of as an ideal unit that mixes air at the zone exhaust condition (o

Here's a relevant feature request to add efficiency fields to the District* objects. https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/

@JasonGlazer see above. @furtonb most likely it hasn't been added to the new version of the BCL. https://bcl.nrel.gov/co

@JasonGlazer see above.

Hotels >3 stories fall under Group R occupancy per the IBC. So, you could model the baseline as a System 8 (PTHP). I

Hotels >3 stories fall under Group R occupancy per the IBC. So, you could model the baseline as a System 8. IECC-20

I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a co

I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a co

I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a co

I believe hotels are considered "residential", at least according to 90.1 (check the IECC definitions, I don't have a co

I believe hotels are considered "residential" (check the IECC definitions), at least according to 90.1 (I don't have a c

Also worth noting that there are XML extensions for VS Code.

@TheEnergyTutor coming to a Q&A site asking for help and then insulting someone who tries to help is not a good way

I wrote a simple measure called Envelope Material Property Phase Change that could be useful. My results did not show si

I wrote a simple measure called Envelope Material Property Phase Change that could be useful. Note, I did not see signif

I wrote a simple measure called Envelope Material Property Phase Change that could be useful. Note, I did not see signif

@theenergytutor it's helpful to describe what you've already tried (like reading all the EP documentation) per the Help

Julien's to_actual_object method is also helpful to avoid all the casting that is required without it. https://unmethour

In Ruby, there's the object.class method, which will return the entire class i.e. OpenStudio::Model::CoilHeatingWater. I

In Ruby, there's the object.class method, which will return the _entire_ class i.e. OpenStudio::Model::CoilHeatingWater.

In Ruby, there's the object.class method, which will return the _entire_ class i.e. OpenStudio::Model::CoilHeatingWater.

In Ruby, there's the object.class method, which will return the _entire_ class i.e. OpenStudio::Model::CoilHeatingWater.

You could also use plant_loop_object.sizingPlant.loopType == 'Heating' to make your script more generic rather than rely

You could also use plant_loop_object.sizingPlant.loopType == 'Heating' to make your script more generic rather than rely

And what about kBtu/ft2? It's the standard unit for EUI mixing an SI prefix with an IP unit.

And what about kBtu/ft2? It's the standard unit for EUI mixing SI and IP units.

And what about kBtu/ft2?

IDL-Boise has created this spreadsheet tool that will calculate fan power given a few input parameters. It will aid you

Cory, feel free to accept [check] your own answer for the karma points.

If it's important to you, Revit has, as of v2022, used an older version of OpenStudio (2.8.0).

When this happened or I was unable to get detailed performance data, I would often simply use ChillerConstantCOP (not wr

@yi it doesn't appear to be on the new BCL site https://bcl.nrel.gov/, but it's still in a private GitHub repo. Maybe @d

@yi it doesn't appear to be on the new BCL site https://bcl.nrel.gov/, but it's still in a private GitHub repo. Maybe @D