Outdoor air loads
I'm using openstudio 1.10.0.
How can I model a room load regarding outdoor air infiltration? In my building I got something like 0,8 ach.
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There is no way to assign a particularly infiltration directly to a thermal zone?
Infiltration is treated as a load associated with a physical space. Thermal zones can have a 1-to-1 relationship with spaces, but that's not a requirement (e.g. a thermal zone can span multiple physical spaces).
So I should assign infiltration to a space and not to a thermal zone?
Yes. Specify the infiltration as a space type definition -> Assign the space type definition to a physical space -> Zone your building. It may seem like an extra step, but it gives you flexibility in evaluating different zoning options for your building - and there's a user script in the SketchUp Plug-In that will automatically create a 1-to-1 mapping between spaces and zones for you if you want to zone your building that way. (I don't recall if that's been converted into a standalone OpenStudio Measure or not.)
