<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Jens, I believe the current tests in ASHRAE 140 are <blockquote>Envelope BESTEST HVAC BESTEST Vol 1 HVAC BESTEST Vol 2 Furnace Tests </blockquote> ESP-r has been tested against all these tests - see the validation study paper, where references are given. By the way, there is an updated paper on the ESP-r validation studies: Strachan P, Kokogiannakis G and Macdonald I, History and Development of Validation with the ESP-r Simulation Program, Building and Environment, Vol 43 No 4 pp601-9, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.06.025, April 2008. Regards Paul Jens Pfafferott wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:49A5480B.7000501@ise.fraunhofer.de" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">hi everybody, has anybody ever used esp-r for LEED-certification according to ASHRAE standard 90.1 appendix G? has esp-r ever validated according to ASHRAE standard 140? (i haven't found anything in paul's "ESP-r: Summary of Validation Studies" from 2000.) thank you! -- Dr.-Ing. Jens Pfafferott Dep. Thermal Systems and Buildings Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE Heidenhofstrasse 2, 79110 Freiburg, Germany Phone: +49(0)761/4588-5129 Fax: +49(0)761/4588-9000 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jens.pfafferott@ise.fraunhofer.de">jens.pfafferott@ise.fraunhofer.de</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de">http://www.ise.fraunhofer.de</a> _______________________________________________ esp-r mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- *************************************************************** Dr P A Strachan email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:paul@esru.strath.ac.uk">paul@esru.strath.ac.uk</a> ESRU, Dept. of Mechanical Eng. phone: +44 141 548 2041 University of Strathclyde fax: +44 141 552 5105 Glasgow G1 1XJ, UK <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk">http://www.esru.strath.ac.uk</a> *************************************************************** </pre> </body> </html>