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    Equest For Leed Training: Proposed Building Setup

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    This course provides step-by-step instruction on completing an energy model in eQUEST for LEED energy modeling certification. It covers setting up and modeling a proposed building design in eQUEST, then creating a baseline building model to compare energy usage. Topics include drawing the building, defining zones and HVAC systems, lighting and plug loads, envelope properties, and simulating the models to generate reports for LEED submittal. The course is intended to help professionals like engineers, architects and building operators learn best practices for LEED energy modeling in eQUEST to streamline the review process.

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    Equest For Leed Training: Proposed Building Setup

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    This course provides step-by-step instruction on completing an energy model in eQUEST for LEED energy modeling certification. It covers setting up and modeling a proposed building design in eQUEST, then creating a baseline building model to compare energy usage. Topics include drawing the building, defining zones and HVAC systems, lighting and plug loads, envelope properties, and simulating the models to generate reports for LEED submittal. The course is intended to help professionals like engineers, architects and building operators learn best practices for LEED energy modeling in eQUEST to streamline the review process.

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    This course provides step-by-step instruction on completing an energy model in eQUEST for LEED energy modeling certification. It covers setting up and modeling a proposed building design in eQUEST, then creating a baseline building model to compare energy usage. Topics include drawing the building, defining zones and HVAC systems, lighting and plug loads, envelope properties, and simulating the models to generate reports for LEED submittal. The course is intended to help professionals like engineers, architects and building operators learn best practices for LEED energy modeling in eQUEST to streamline the review process.

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    Equest For Leed Training: Proposed Building Setup

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    masoodae
    This course provides step-by-step instruction on completing an energy model in eQUEST for LEED energy modeling certification. It covers setting up and modeling a proposed building design in eQUEST, then creating a baseline building model to compare energy usage. Topics include drawing the building, defining zones and HVAC systems, lighting and plug loads, envelope properties, and simulating the models to generate reports for LEED submittal. The course is intended to help professionals like engineers, architects and building operators learn best practices for LEED energy modeling in eQUEST to streamline the review process.

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    eQuest for LEED Training

    Watch as we go step-by-step through setting up a building in eQUEST and


    completing the LEED energy model. Earn 8 GBCI CE Credits and PDHs.

    This course breaks down an eQUEST model and goes step


    by step through the LEED energy modeling process (LEED
    Details
    NC 2009). We’ll model a building step by step and talk about
    how to do things the ‘LEED’ way and how to reduce those
    pesky review comments. The case study starts with design
    documents and ends with eQUEST reports to submit to Unlimited
    Online Access
    LEED.

    Proposed Building Setup


    • Starting a New File in eQuest
    • Drawing the Building in eQuest
    Watch in-depth
    • Custom Zones Video Instruction
    • Creating the Second Floor on your own time
    • System Setup- Wizards
    • Assign Zones to Systems
    • Plant Setup
    • DHW Setup
    • Rate Structure Wizards
    • Detailed Mode Earn LEED CE Hours &
    • Naming Spaces PDHs
    • Space Renaming
    • Lighting Power Density
    • Global Parameter LPD
    • Plug Loads
    • People and Ventilation
    • Window Setup For: Auditors, LEED,
    • Materials and U-Values Architects,
    • Detailed System Setup Materials & Equipment
    Sales,
    • Room Exhaust Engineers, Building
    • Boiler and DHW Setup Professionals
    • System Specifics
    • Rate Structures
    • Exterior Lighting

    2 Part I: Getting Started


    • What the course covers
    • Five things you should know about the model
    • Priorities for LEED

    Part II: Starting the proposed building in


    eQuest
    • Starting the initial eQuest Model
    • Starting with the Design Development Wizard in eQuest
    • Utility Rates in eQuest
    • Natural Gas Rates in eQuest
    • Project Navigator and Building Shells in eQuest
    • Starting the eQuest PD2 file
    • Viewing the Building Shell in eQuest
    • Plenums and Space Renaming in eQuest
    • Global Parameters in eQuest
    • Lighting Power Density Parameter and Whole Building
    Method
    • eQuest Systems
    • What are we modeling in eQuest?
    • Building Drawings and Dimensions in eQuest
    • eQuest Thermal Blocks for LEED Thermal Blocks and
    Unmet Hours in eQuest
    • eQuest System Simplification and Thermal Blocks
    • How Thermal Blocks Yield LEED Points
    • Starting the Proposed Building
    • Things to know about your project
    • Starting the LEED Energy Model
    • eQuest for LEED equipment schedules
    • eQuest Air Handling Unit (AHU) System
    • Space by Space vs Whole Building Method
    • Air-Side HVAC Systems
    • Defining Fan Power in eQuest
    • LEED Specific Setup
    • Outdoor Air
    • Cooling in eQUEST
    • Prepping the Proposed
    • COP Unit Conversion
    • Heating Coils in eQUEST
    3
    • Preheat and Baseboard Heat
    • Performance Curves and SEER in eQUEST
    • Main Parameters for LEED in eQUEST
    • Defaults from the eQUEST Wizards
    • Heat Input Ratio (HIR) in eQUEST
    • Heating Source Differences in eQUEST
    • VAV Hot Water Loop
    • PTACs and Thermal Blocks
    • Finishing Up the Proposed Building
    • Moving to the Baseline Building
    • Baseline Building Envelope and Glass
    • Changing Glass Type in eQUEST
    • U-Values, Materials and Construction in eQUEST
    • Changes to the Building
    • An Example of how to Change the Building
    • eQUEST Syntax Help
    • How Do I Create the Baseline Building in eQUEST?
    • eQUEST Rotations and Parametric Runs
    • Simulating and Reports in eQUEST
    • Determining Percent Glass in eQUEST
    • Energy Model Square Footage
    • LEED Energy Modeling Cheat Sheet
    • Next Steps for a LEED eQUEST Model
    • Opaque Envelope and Climate Zones
    • Roof Reflectivity, U-Value
    • Window to Wall Ratio
    • Lighting and CFM
    • Completing the Baseline Building
    • Updating the Envelope
    • Re-using Building Elements in eQUEST
    • LEED, Glass Types and U-Value in eQUEST
    • Constructions in eQUEST
    • Floor Constructions in eQUEST
    • Finishing the Envelope in eQUEST
    • Simulating the Baseline in eQUEST
    • Completing the Envelope
    • Interior Lighting in eQUEST
    • Space by Space vs. Whole Building Method
    Part III: Continuing the Baseline Building
    in eQuest
    4 • Airside Parameters
    • Creating Air Handling Units for both Floors in eQuest
    • Heating
    • Finishing up the baseline
    • MERV an Filters
    • Fan Power
    • Efficiency
    • Unit Converter
    • eQuest User Expression for CFM
    • Fan Curves in eQuest
    • Completing System Inputs
    • Waterside HVAC
    • Pumping Requirements
    • Domestic Hot Water
    • Creating the Second Boiler
    • Boiler Location
    • SImulating the Boilers
    • Parking Lot Lights in eQuest
    • Loads in eQuest

    Part IV: Energy Modeling for LEED for


    eQuest
    • eQuest LEED Best Practices
    • Cost of LEED Energy Model
    • Cost per Square Foot
    • PTACs and Residential LEED
    • eQuest LEED Model Time Estimation
    • Life After LEED Comments
    • LEED Energy Modeling Cost Breakdown
    • Unmet Hours in eQuest
    • Throttling Range, Unmet Hours, and eQuest
    • Number One Cause of Unmet Hours
    • Exhaust Fans in eQuest
    • Modeling Complex Systems in eQuest

    Final Exam

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