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Going back to the answer above.. "Once you migrate to the OpenStudio Application to finish the model you can define the properties of your beam and column construction(s)".
Clearly it's not necessary to create beams and columns in the OpenStudio SketchUp Plugin to simulate the energy performance... but I don't understand how to include heat losses due to thermal bridges in OpenStudio because in my case they are significant.. it's a single family apartment alterning a concrete frame of beams and coloumns withouth insulation with (no-structural) insulated bricks wall .. do you think that a good way is modelling walls accounting of overall U-Value (U-Walls * area fraction + U-FrameStructure * area fraction) or is there another way that I'm missing, for example adding thermal bridge coefficient (Ψ-value) in some way ? thanks in advance for your help
