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Hi CP,

Thank you for your answer. I'll check the modelling guide to find out these differences.

Regards,
George

Hi IES users,

I'm modelling an office building and want to compare BER/TER pass margin under both the 2010 and 2013 Part L requirements.

The actual model stays exactly the same in both cases.

I would expect the BER to stay the same, since I don't change anything in the model, but the TER to ...

Hi Terence,

Thanks for clarifying this, created a lot of confusion to me.

The key is paragraph 173: "Thus, it is possible for the Building Regulation 26 compliance test and EPCs to compare
buildings on the basis of their intrinsic potential performance, regardless of how they may actually
be used ...

Hi IES users,

I have a question regarding the NCM lighting profies in VE Compliance.

When modelling a school, VE compliance applies the appropriate NCM template to each room (classroom, circulation etc...)

According to these templates, classrooms appear to have no lighting gains during summer ...

Hi Zap, this was very helpful, thanks!

Hi everyone,

New IES VE user here. I am trying to import my Revit MEP 2013 model in IES, but I have problems with the inner volumes.

Although the import works really well, whenever I change a wall construction IES will recalculate the inner volume, which takes a lot of time and makes my model ...