Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Typically people use the EnergyPlus autosizing feature to calculate the correct location dependent sizes automatically. Going the autosizing route would avoid the need to "switch" on climate zone within the measure. The DOE reference buildings are already setup for autosizing.
If you need to switch on climate zone the OpenStudio Model does define an optional ClimateZone object to contain this information, but I do not believe that the OpenStudio prototype buildings are encoded with this object. @David Goldwasser might be able to flesh that out for you.
