Study on the analysis method of energy consumption of building with eQUEST software

Taking a given office building of Hangzhou as an example,its energy loads of heating,cooling and other electric power consumptions were assessed by eQUEST software within a time-span of hours,days and months respectively for one year.The application method of eQUEST software was in detail introduced.Meanwhile,the reliability of eQUEST software was evaluated through comparing calculating values of energy consumption obtained from eQEUST with the actual values running in the given building.It was proved that eQUEST could give a rapid,overall,and reliable assessment for energy consumption of building.It has a friendly input screen and easy access.However,it needs to note that the errors between the calculation value and actual values are still not negligible.It is necessary to pay more attention to some disadvantages of this software in simulating the building energy consumption,including setting some parameters of building as dynamic values.