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Resources on Materials:

appx_zonefromsurfaces

zone from surfaces

Note: it is possible to apply distinct materials to each zone surface as well. There are two methods of doing this: 1) building up the zones surface-by-surface as in the following: or 2) Creating the zones through Mass-to-Zones and then using the Honeybee_Set EP Zone Construction component to specify materials for each zone surface type. You can view these types using the Honeybee_Label Zone Surfaces component.

  • Image of zone built up by surfaces
  • Rhino image
  • Grasshopper of Option 2
  • Image of mass-to-zones zone labeled in Rhino

The energy balance shown above is not actually normalized by floor area, rather it's the totals. At least in the example file these results are shown when the "modelEnergyBalance" output from the Energy balance component is connected to the Average data and Monthly Chart components respectively

Table of Contents

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Intro I - Installing Honeybee

Intro II - Grasshopper Interface

Intro III - Honeybee Interface

Intro IV - EnergyPlus Modeling Assumptions

Intro V - Conventions and Code Hygiene

Intro VI - Contributing to Honeybee Wiki!

Single Zone Model

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Step 0 - Modeling Zone Geometry

Step 1 - Assign Properties to Zones

Step 2 - Simulation Setup

Step 3 - Run the model

Step 4 - Visualize the results

Step 5 - Iterating to improve design

Comparing Passive Strategies

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Passive 0 - Comfort Models

Passive 1 - Materials - High Performance Window

Passive 2 - Geometry - Shade

Passive 3 - Equipment - Lighting

Passive 4 - Ventilation - Open Windows

Passive 5 - Schedules - Night Flushing

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