Heating and Cooling SET Hours (Annual Thermal Resilience Summary)

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Thank you, this is very helpful! However, I am not sure how to add these inputs within the OpenStudio-HPXML that I am using for running the batch simulations. Any advice on that? What folder should I look into?

To elaborate more on the question - where do I go in and add this measure? Is it in the in.xml file for the building energy model or is it in one of the measure.rb files? Or, do I need to interact with the generated in.idf file after running the simulation?

Thank you for the help!

Since OpenStudio-HPXML does not expose any inputs for describing thermal comfort models, the typical way to handle this is: 1) write an OpenStudio measure, that you would apply to the OpenStudio model created by the HPXMLtoOpenStudio measure, that makes the changes you want to see, 2) create an OpenStudio workflow (OSW) file that incorporates your measure, to be run via the Advanced Run instructions.

If someone already wrote an OpenStudio measure to do this, that would make the effort much lower. But I don't see any such measure on the Building Component Library.

Thank you, yes, that is what I thought too. I will try to figure out how to add a measure. To confirm, this measure should go in the measure.rb file in the HPXMLtoOpenStudio folder, correct?

Also, for the Advanced Run, I have a python script that runs the osw file, since I am running batch simulations. So that should not be a problem I think?

Thank you

What Scott is saying means the new measure would be separate from the HPXMLtoOpenStudio measure and have its own similar folder with its own measure.rb file. You would then add a reference to that new directory in the OSW so that your python script should work the same as before. I'm a little uncertain based on the SDK documentation whether you'll be able to add the fields you need in the OpenStudio model space, but it's worth trying. I'll connect with you over email and point you in the right direction.

I think everything is available in OpenStudio. Note that the thermal comfort model itself is defined in the PeopleDefinition object, not the People object.

Thank you both - This is super helpful. I will give it a shot and also look forward to hearing from you, Craig!