Practice Exercise: Building Envelope Systems

Your building envelope recommendations for this practice exercise should feature:

  • Your recommended settings for the Insight Factor tiles
  • A screenshot from Insight showing the Predicted Mean EUI and the range of values resulting from your assumptions

Building Envelope

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  • WWR South - 30%
    • Window Shades - 1/6 Window Height
    • Window Glass - Dbl LoE
  • WWR North - 0%
    • Window Shades - N/A
    • Window Glass - N/A
  • WWR East - 0%
    • Window Shades - N/A
    • Window Glass - N/A
  • WWR West - 0%
    • Window Shades - N/A
    • Window Glass - N/A
  • Wall Construction - R38 Wood
  • Everything else was left at default settings

Lighting and Energy Efficiency

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  • Plug Load Efficiency - 0.6 W/sf
  • Lighting Efficiency - 0.3 W/sf
  • Daylighting and Occupancy Controls - Both
  • Every other setting was left to defaults

Photovoltaic Cells

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PV Surface Coverage - 90%

PV Efficiency - 20.4%

Payback Limit - 30 Years

All other settings were left at defaults