Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
 | 1 | initial version |
Turns out as long as your have properly defined everything as per floor area, it propagates to EnergyPlus, so you can just use an EnergyPlus measure to overwrite the zone area.
| | 2 | No.2 Revision |
Turns out as long as your have properly defined everything as per floor area, it propagates to EnergyPlus, so you can just use an EnergyPlus measure to overwrite the zone area.
Here's an example of a Lights object:
Lights,
189.1-2009 - Office - ClosedOffice - CZ1-3 Lights, !- Name
90.1-2007 - Office - ClosedOffice, !- Zone or ZoneList Name
Office Bldg Light, !- Schedule Name
Watts/Area, !- Design Level Calculation Method
, !- Lighting Level {W}
11.8403014583807, !- Watts per Zone Floor Area {W/m2}
, !- Watts per Person {W/person}
, !- Return Air Fraction
0.7, !- Fraction Radiant
0.2; !- Fraction Visible
I'll upload a measure to BCL shortly.
| | 3 | No.3 Revision |
Turns out as long as your have properly defined everything as per floor area, it propagates to EnergyPlus, so you can just use an EnergyPlus measure to overwrite the zone area.
Here's an example of a Lights object:
Lights,
189.1-2009 - Office - ClosedOffice - CZ1-3 Lights, !- Name
90.1-2007 - Office - ClosedOffice, !- Zone or ZoneList Name
Office Bldg Light, !- Schedule Name
Watts/Area, !- Design Level Calculation Method
, !- Lighting Level {W}
11.8403014583807, !- Watts per Zone Floor Area {W/m2}
, !- Watts per Person {W/person}
, !- Return Air Fraction
0.7, !- Fraction Radiant
0.2; !- Fraction Visible
I'll upload I've uploaded a measure to the BCL shortly.called Overwrite Zone Floor Area
