Energy modelling VISUALDOE 4.0 software

[Ilaya]

Hi frnds,
i m with leed consultant.working with energy modelling visualdoe 4.0 software, i have some queries as given below.please somebody can help me in sorting out this problems
project is for residential building,with this software the total building was divided into 5 blocks,66 systems & 58 zones(hope people working with this software could able to understand this).

1. When we want to make 2 or more system and if we need to assign certain number of zones to each system, how we can do with this software.

2. In HVAC SYSTEM EDITOR, how to assign 2-pipe fan coil unit for one system and Variable air Volume for another system. Also if we want to consider outside air with heat recovery how could it be incorporated when we keep the system as 2 pipe fan coil type, which is not showing heat recovery


3. In zones folder, outside air(fresh air) is given. If we want to keep the total outside air as input, is that we need to divide the total fresh air required for the building by number of conditioned zones.

if need any other details regarding our project please do let me know.

Thanks
ILAYA

[M.P. Rao]

You can contact Dr. Vishal Garg, Head-Green Building IT, Intl. Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India at vishal@iiit.net

[Kevin]

Great questions. I'm looking forward to having more detailed energy modeling discussion here, VisualDOE, EnergyPlus, Ecotect, Green Building Studio, etc. etc... It's a really vital area as far as ArchWeek is concerned.