Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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What is the purposed of modeling that you are doing and what is the effect in your results of modeling each stairwells step?
If you are calculating thermal loads or energy consumption my advice is to simplify the stairs. It is important to put the electric, lighting, people loads and weather it is conditioned or not etc.
"everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
