Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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There are two things you need to provide to provide hourly schedule for the occupancy. (1.) The peak occupancy value (it's in the LOADS section under People definition (for ex: 200 sqft/person OR 0.005 person/sqft. (2.) The hourly fraction schedule (what you've described) where the values vary from 12am to 12am (generally 24 values for hourly schedule but can increase if you provide 15 min or 1 min scchedules).
Let's assume your space area is 1000 sqft, and the peak occupancy def: 200 sqft/person. The maximum number of people in the space can be = 5 persons (1000/200)
Later you need to define the total occupancy loads to the spaces (or spacetypes) where OS (or any other software) multiplies the peak occupancy (5 persons) to the fractional schedule. Let's say your fractional occupancy schedule is:
12am-5am: 0.0
5am-9am: 0.2
9am-12p: 0.6
12p-5p: 1
5p-12am: 0.4
OS will now multiply the peak occupancy to this fractional schedule to define the number of people in the spaces like this:
12am-5am: 0 person
5am-9am: 1 person
9am-12p: 3 persons
12p-5p: 5 persons (maximum value as the fractional schedule is 1)
5p-12am: 2 persons.
Hope it helps now.
