Automated Chiller and Boiler Plant Selections in Revit

Join us to learn how to pass the load calculation and airside data that you’ve already generated into hydronic plant selections. This will allow you to automatically select and insert chillers (air and water-cooled), boilers, pumps, cooling towers, expansion tanks, and air separators directly into your Revit model.

A decision framework for selecting optimum hydronic plants will be discussed which will cover equipment size availability, first cost, energy cost, maintenance costs, and system life.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:21 The Ripple HVAC Toolkit
00:01:00 Other features of the Ripple HVAC Toolkit and Dataflow
00:02:01 ASHRAE 36
00:03:05 Basis of design of manufacturers
00:03:48 Help Button
00:04:41 Chiller and Boiler Plant Selection Example
00:13:45 Cooling Tower Selections
00:15:17 Pump Selections
00:16:13 Expansion Tanks Selections
00:18:42 Overridable Inputs and Default Values
00:19:43 Q&A Schedules?
00:20:11 Q&A Shared Parameters?
00:22:00 Q&A SI Units?
00:22:25 Q&A Details and fabrication?
00:22:55 Q&A Custom Parameters?
00:23:25 Q&A Glycol in chilled water system?
00:24:04 When to choose DX, Air-Cooled, or Water-Cooled Chillers
00:38:55 Q&A sum of peaks of load calculations?
00:41:05 Q&A Energy Modeling?
00:41:55 Q&A Manufacturers?
00:42:30 Q&A Derate factors for chilled water and glycol.