Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
 | 1 | initial version |
... so it depends. Yet in general, it's usually fine to merge typical sales and backroom areas as a single thermal zone per retail unit. How return vs WC exhaust air is taken into account depends on available simulation engine options. And based on the simulation engine, one can also look into deleting interzone surfaces between units and/or unit multipliers (less surfaces == faster runs).
| | 2 | No.2 Revision |
... so it depends. Yet in general, it's usually fine to merge typical sales and backroom areas as a single thermal zone per retail unit. How return vs WC exhaust air is taken into account depends on available simulation engine options. And based on the simulation engine, one can also look into deleting interzone surfaces between units and/or unit multipliers (less surfaces == faster runs).
| | 3 | No.3 Revision |
... so it depends. Yet in general, it's usually fine to merge typical sales and backroom areas as a single thermal zone per retail unit. How return vs WC exhaust air is taken into account depends on available simulation engine options. And based on the simulation engine, one can also look into deleting interzone surfaces between units and/or relying on unit multipliers (less (fewer surfaces == faster runs).
