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Kristina Orehounig and Ardeshir Mahdavi
Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology
Director: Univ.Prof. DI Dr. techn. A. Mahdavi
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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1. Exercise
Create simple rectangular building:
External dimensions:
External dimensions: 30 x 20m
30 x 20m
Wall thickness: 0.3m
Block height ground 3.5 m
Block height 1st floor 3.0 m
Pitched roof (gable roof) slope 25 degrees with 0.5 m
overhang and wall thickness 0 1m
overhang and wall thickness 0.1m
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1. Exercise
• Check wall thickness set correctly
• Internal zone floor dimensions should be 19.4 x 29.4m
Internal zone floor dimensions should be 19 4 x 29 4m
• Internal area = 570.36m²‐check in Navigator (below)
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2. Exercise – Drag face
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2. Exercise – Drag face
• Draw a block 20m x 20m and 6m high
•Starting at the south west corner add a block that is 3m high and
extends 12m along the south wall of the original block and stands out
from that block by 6m
• Now use the Drag face tool to pull the smaller block out to a distance
of 10m
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3. Exercise – cutting tool
Using cutting and protractor tools to create a mono pitch roof
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4. Exercise – component blocks
Setting ground adjacencies using component blocks
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4. Exercise
Using ground component blocks to set ground adjacency
•Create a two storey building with flat roof 15m x 20m with default block
heights. Use Block wall thickness of 0.3m.
• Add gable roof with 30º slope 0.5m overlap
• The ground rises along the south wall from floor level at the west corner to
1.75m at the east corner
• Use a ground component block to set the adjacency for the south wall.
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4. Exercise
Setting ground adjacency using component block
• Note how the ground component block has
modified the layout of the default façade
• Go down to the surface level and check
that the surface next to the ground
component block has been split into 2
adjacencies
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5. Exercise – Adiabatic component blocks
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5. Exercise – Adiabatic component blocks
• Using adiabatic component blocks to represent other spaces at
similar conditions
• Add 4m high, 6m wide adiabatic block to middle of North facade
• Using standard component blocks for shading and reflections
•Add standard block in front of West face
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6. Exercise – Assigning activities & zoning
• Standard block should be removed again
• Using the top floor block add a 2m wide corridor down the middle
of the block
• Insert partitions to create
4 cellular offices along west wall
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6. Exercise – Zoning the building
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6. Exercise – Renaming Blocks and Zones
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7. Exercise ‐ constructions
Add an unconditioned pitched roof (specify space as semi‐exterior unconditioned)
Create a new external wall construction and apply it to second floor and roof
blocks:
blocks:
• Outer layer –lightweight metallic cladding 2 mm thick (look under metals)
• Insulation polyurethane board diffusion tight, 100mm thick
• Inner layer ‐concrete block with 1800 kg/m³ density,
100mm thick
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7. Exercise ‐ constructions
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8. Exercise – defining openings
• Change default glazing to the whole building to Dbl LoE(e2=0.1) Clr
6mm/13mm Air
• Change all top floor openings to be 20% glazed, 1.6m height and 1.0m sill
height (block level change).
• Alter all top floor West wall windows to have 40% glazing, 2m high with a
sill height of 1m.
• South wall ground floor has no glazing
• North wall has a door (1 m x2 m)
North wall has a door (1 m x2 m)
• Visualize to check correct positioning
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8b. Exercise – copy of openings
• At building level remove all ground floor West wall windows
• Copy windows from West wall top floor to ground floor
• Visualize to check correct positioning
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9. Exercise ‐ Heating Design Calculations
•From Exercise 10 model
Set Location to London (Gatwick Airport)
•Set Location to London (Gatwick Airport)
• Run Heating Design Calculation,
using System sizing design margin of 1.8
• View Detailed and Summary results
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10. Exercise ‐ Cooling Design Calculations
• Starting from Exercise 11 model
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• Switch on Cooling in cellular offices
• Run Cooling Design Calculation, using System
sizing design margin of 1.2
•View Detailed and Summary results
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11. Exercise – Simulation
• We go back to our model and simulate
• Monthly and Annual (for 365 days)
Monthly and Annual (for 365 days)
• Daily
• Hourly
• View results
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11. Exercise – Simulation
•Annual results
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11. Exercise – Simulation
•Monthly results
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11. Exercise – Simulation
•Daily results
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11. Exercise – Simulation
•Hourly results
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
• New model for a simple building
• Location: Bengalore, India
Location: Bengalore India
• Ground temperature 23°C
• Import of dxf‐plan tutorial_v1.dxf
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
Section
Ground floor 1st floor
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
1. Create the two blocks for the two levels
2. Draw internal walls, and create windows and doors
3. Draw a hole in the ceiling where the staircase is located
4. Select "Building Model options" – "Advanced" –
"Merge zones connected by holes"
5. Rename the zones accordingly
6 Import construction template "Constructions Tutorial
6. I t t ti t l t "C t ti T t i l
India"
7. Change at Building level the Activity‐template to none
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
8. Change at Building Level the HVAC‐Template to none
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12. Exercise – Simulations v0
9. Run simulations including hourly data for the "summer
typical week"
10. Find out which room has the highest temperatures?
11. Compare air change rates, occupancy gains, …..
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12. Exercise – Simulations v1
1. Change at the Activity‐tab:
Cooling set point temperature 26°C
2. Change at the HVAC‐tab:
Switch the Cooling on
3. Simulate for the year (include surface data)
4. Look at the temperatures and the cooling loads
5 Look at surface data and solar gains
5. L k t f d t d l i
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12. Exercise – Simulations v2
1. Add to the last version of the tutorial 20cm EPS‐
insulation to the external walls at building level
2. Simulate again for the summer typical week
3. Compare the results with the last version
4. Look specifically at cooling loads, surface data,…
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12. Exercise – Simulations v3 _ Shading
1. Go back to the edit screen
2. At building level go to the „opening tab“ and open the
shading header switch to „window shading“
3. choose the following settings:
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12. Exercise – Simulations v4 _ Shading b
1. Go back to the edit screen
2. At building level go to the „opening tab“ and open the
shading header
3. choose the following settings:
12. Exercise – Simulations v5 _ Shading c
1. switch off „window shading“ and switch on „local
shading“
2. select „overhang and sidefins (1m projection)“
3. and perform simulations again for the summer typical
week
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12. Exercise – Simulations v6 _ Shading d
1. turn all shading options off
2. on the layout tab draw a large component block in
front of south‐facing windows. (1m away from the
building, and 20m high)
3. Construction tab at Building level, the following
settings:
Transmittance can be changed
Transmittance can be changed
from 0 (opaque) to 1 (maximum
transmittance)
12. Exercise – Simulations v7 _ schedules
1. Go back to Version 14v4 of your model.
2. Go to HVAC‐tab and change the value of the air change
rate accordingly:
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12. Exercise – Simulations v7 _ schedules
4. Create a profile with the following settings:
12. Exercise – Simulations v8 _ schedules 2
1. Next step is to set a schedule for the cooling operation:
From 6:00‐18:00 100% cooling
From 18:00‐22:00 50% cooling (setback value)
From 22:00‐3:00 0% cooling (switched off)
From 3:00‐6:00 50% cooling
2. Change the NV back to 1ach always on
3. Simulate for the summer typical week
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