If you feel your zone is already tight, you might have to rebuilt a particular wall or ceiling or floor object.
Windows and void objects are ok as they are children of wall objects. Imagine you pour water in the zone, you do not want to see any leaks. A student feedback survey on the Ecotect assignment was conducted among 64 students. The thermal zone needs to be perfectly enclosed so that Ecotect knows the volume of air in that zone. The assignment was given during the Environmental Conscious Design course and the students were required to conduct natural daylight analysis and average indoor thermal analysis of their studio design project using the Ecotect software. In that case, set the ACH to the maximum you would estimate when all windows are open, and use the schedule to vary this number for example, set your zone to 100 ACH for breezy cross ventilation, then in the summer evenings you can set your schedule to 100%, and maybe 0% in the middle of the day when you want to close the windows when it is too hot outside.Ībout the error message, your geometry is probably not quite perfect on that zone and Ecotect sees a "leak". The dataset contains eight attributes (or features, denoted by X1X8) and two responses (or outcomes, denoted by y1 and y2). It can also be used as a multi-class classification problem if the response is rounded to the nearest integer. Personally, I rarely apply any ventilation schedule unless I want to simulate the users opening or closing the windows for ventilation. The dataset comprises 768 samples and 8 features, aiming to predict two real valued responses. But something like internal gain is often related to occupancy, whereas when occupant leave the building, they often turn off lights and equipments, but that is not always the case in large office spaces unfortunately.
Indeed, you can, if you feel that your ventilation schedule would match your occupancy schedule - which is not quite always the case. Let me know if you have more questions on this topic, otherwise please accept as a solution so that others can benefit from this information. I hope that makes sense! These schedules are a bit intimidating to get started, but once you understand you are dealing with really an hourly schedule THEN you can assign that schedule to any day of the year, it starts to make more sense. You can of course create another hourly schedule where all hours is set to 10% or whatever, and assign that hourly schedule to these dates in the yearly calendar when you expect a Holiday and the zone will not be occupied (same for weekends). So if your zone is set to have internal gains to 10 W/m2, you can create a schedule with hourly schedule to say 15 or 20% during the night hours, so that you should see a reduction of internal gains (equipment only) during the night times. This is why it is best practice to set your zone's occupants and infiltration/ internal gains, to their maximum expected, and then you can decrease these numbers using the schedule. Setting your hourly schedule to 100% will make Ecotect use the same number you have set in the zone's internal gains and ventilation rate. Same thing for the Ventilation and internal gains. What you need to know, and you probably found that out already, is that the schedules are based on a % basis.įor occupancies, if you set your hourly schedule to 50% and your occupancy is set to 10, then Ecotect will use 5 occupant in the zone for these hour. Prerequisites: ENG 098, FYE 101, MAT 092, RDG 098 or placement.Every schedule works the same way, so if you are able to work out the occupancy schedules, then you got it made! Students will also be exposed to the concept of life cycle costing and integrated approach to the challenges inherent with sustainable building design, operations and maintenance. Through a combination of selected case studies, group discussion and analysis, students will explore the environmental influence of buildings and discover the economic benefits of reduced operating costs and research increased comfort of the occupants.
In addition, the course encourages students to think from a variety of perspectives and to learn of the benefits of a collaborative approach to sustainability management. Through lectures and interactive dialogue with sustainability industry experts, the course builds literacy in sustainability as related to the built environment in local, regional and global spheres. Also explored will be the role of financial, social ecological, ethical, philosophical, political, cultural and psychological issues on the decision making process of facility and energy managers, engineers, architects and project managers. The core emphasis is on understanding natural systems and their interaction with the built environment. This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of sustainability. Sustainability and the Built Environment.