NRCan-IETS-CE-O-HBC / HTAP

NRCan's Ruby scripts for batch analysis and optimization with HOT2000
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/housing/home-improvements/17725
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Substitute-h2k.rb: Add support for different types of ceilings #3

Closed fergusoa closed 6 years ago

fergusoa commented 6 years ago

Provide support for changing the insulation in ceilings of a specific construction type rather than changing all ceilings to one insulation level. There are five (5) ceiling construction types in HOT2000:

Attic/gable, Attic/hip, Cathedral, Flat and Scissor.

Attic/gable and Attic/hip should be grouped together as they will have similar insulation levels.

jblake59 commented 6 years ago

Proposal: I believe this can be achieved with the addition of new options that only find ceiling entries of a specific construction type as follows:

julia-purdy commented 6 years ago

While i understand that scissors are their own ceiling "type", I think they can be lumped in with cathedrals.

jblake59 commented 6 years ago

@julia-purdy : I suggest an alternate grouping as follows:

jblake59 commented 6 years ago

Note that the code library has two categories for ceiling codes:

For a code library name to be applied in an HTAP run it must exist in one (or both) or these groups. Note that the HOT2000 Code Editor GUI enforces UNIQUE code names ACROSS ALL GROUPS so the code editor won't allow the same name to exist in both of the above group names.