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Puget Sound ASHRAE - February TAC Meeting

Course Description
The course describes the fundamentals of modeling and explains how modeling is used in a modern office building to guide design decisions. Course participants will acquire the knowledge and vocabulary to integrate modeling into the design process, from the programming stage through post-occupancy and measurement and verification. The modeling fundamentals portion covers engineering principles that drive energy use in buildings and how these principles are modeled. Additionally, best practices in developing energy models will be addressed, as well as how to assure quality control of the models. Using case studies, real-life examples discuss how calibrating models after occupancy are especially useful in understanding the relationship of models to actual building energy use. Case studies are also used to de-mystify Life Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis. The course will demonstrate the use of modeling with LCC to arrive at consensus decisions with different project stakeholders. Links to valuable modeling resources are also included.