Tag: buildingscience
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TEUI L.2 Heating and Cooling Degree Days
If you’re not sure what OBJECTIVE or TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Heating and Cooling Days (HDD and CDD, respectively) are an effective shorthand for defining climate-related impacts on heating and cooling loads of buildings. The idea is simple enough, but the units – a mashup of time and temperature –…
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TEUI D.1 Reporting Period and Service Life
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides a Drop-Down menu to select a year range from 2015 to 2041. The purpose of this is to establish in what year annual emissions are to be calculated for, and this can function for either the ‘Utility Bill‘ method…
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OBJECTIVE TEUI3 and Occam’s Razor
Embracing Parsimony: The OBJECTIVE TEUI 3 Calculator’s Simplicity in Architectural Energy Models Occam’s Razor, the principle often attributed to the medieval philosopher William of Ockham, advocates for simplicity: where the simplest solution is usually the correct one. This philosophical approach has profound implications across various fields, from physics to economics, and architecture and energy modeling…
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TEUI S.1 Reference Standards
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! TEUI3 provides 15 different preset Reference Standards, 2 are from SB12 of the OBC prescriptive path tables, one is from SB10, 6 more are from NBC/NECB, one is from Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and the rest are from PHI or…
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TEUI B.1 Major Occupancy
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! Of the 50+ user-inputs in the TEUI3 calculator, B.1 Major Occupancy mirrors the Occupancy types as set out in both the National and Provincial Building Codes of Canada. When a Major Occupancy is selected, a number of variables come into play.…
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TEUI B.3 Conditioned Area
If you’re not sure what TEUI3 is, Take me to the Index of Articles! With the pending launch of the OAA’s TEUI v.3 Calculator, we’ve decided to develop a course of lessons in use of the tool, and what assumptions and references have gone into its development. With about 50 user inputs, we figured we’d…