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HVAC and Daylight error in Designbuilder

I have 3 questions related to Designbuilder, I'm working on my thesis which is the renovation of a public building. I had the baseline model which works fine and I created the proposed model out of it, when I run the simulation I don't understand some thing, I'm still learning DB so please correct me. 1/ Why the fan energy consumption is high? I used a VRF HVAC system will before I used a normal system with law fan energy consumption. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1228684115197427744/image.png?ex=662cf040&is=661a7b40&hm=91955bb8acb218518059a90482d1068a08b491c25c7666675bab46df5027f648& 2/ I did daylighting calculation, and only one side of the building got sun light, even that I have all the building with windows, especially south part. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1229067164921757696/image.png?ex=662e54ff&is=661bdfff&hm=8426285ee9375fdfa6adf3e4bdc294fc2d46f6e55b0a0e51cf491810135bf5e3& 3/ For the simulation output, the cooling results are negative in the graph, is that okay?

HVAC and Daylight error in Designbuilder

I have 3 questions related to Designbuilder, I'm working on my thesis which is the renovation of a public building. I had the baseline model which works fine and I created the proposed model out of it, when I run the simulation I don't understand some thing, I'm still learning DB so please correct me. 1/ me.

  1. Why the fan energy consumption is high? I used a VRF HVAC system will before I used a normal system with law fan energy consumption. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1228684115197427744/image.png?ex=662cf040&is=661a7b40&hm=91955bb8acb218518059a90482d1068a08b491c25c7666675bab46df5027f648& 2/ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1228684115197427744/image.png?ex=662cf040&is=661a7b40&hm=91955bb8acb218518059a90482d1068a08b491c25c7666675bab46df5027f648&
  2. I did daylighting calculation, and only one side of the building got sun light, even that I have all the building with windows, especially south part. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1229067164921757696/image.png?ex=662e54ff&is=661bdfff&hm=8426285ee9375fdfa6adf3e4bdc294fc2d46f6e55b0a0e51cf491810135bf5e3& 3/ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/803373536084885574/1229067164921757696/image.png?ex=662e54ff&is=661bdfff&hm=8426285ee9375fdfa6adf3e4bdc294fc2d46f6e55b0a0e51cf491810135bf5e3&
  3. For the simulation output, the cooling results are negative in the graph, is that okay?

Thank you