Practice Exercise: Building Envelope Systems

Your Name

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 choices:

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Wall Construction - R38 Wood

WWR:

Southern Walls - 65%

Northern Walls - 0%

Western Walls - 0%

Eastern Walls - 0%

Window Glass - South - Trp LoE

Everything else - Deafult

Building envelope + power & lighting:

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Plug Load Efficiency - 0.6 W/sf

Daylighting & Occupancy Controls - Daylighting & Occupancy Controls

Lighting Efficiency - 0.3 W/sf

Add Photovoltaic panels:

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Surface Coverage - 90%

Panel Efficiency - 20.4%

Payback Limit - 30yrs