Help?

[Arch_boston]

Hi,

I am new to IES, and trying to model a squash center. I have some questions;

1.Since I am more familiar with Sketchup, I started building the geometry in Sketchup,(using IES plugin), planing to import it into IES and continue modelling the building.I am wondering if this is a good way or not or I should start modelling with IES.

2.The building has one floor(locker rooms, courts,offices and mechanical room etc.)it has also a green roof and skylights.
The challenge for me is that the rooms have different heights(suspended ceiling). There are spaces occurred between roof and the ceilings. Should I consider them as rooms? I am wondering how my approach would be to this issue. How should I model the ceilings when I import the model into IES?
I also attached the schematic section of building to explain the issue well.
http://postimage.org/image/52qc0bkjv/

I am eager to hear about some suggestions and ideas that you may offer.
Thank you very much.


These are also some print screens of my Sketchup model;
http://postimage.org/image/ial4fq31d/
I hided the green roof here;
http://postimage.org/image/ah4da9nc3/
This is a print screen after I imported it to IES;(I selected adjacent buildings and the roof as shade element.)
http://postimage.org/image/e0c0nvncl/

[PCully]

Hi,

I think the approach of starting off in Sketchup will work well, you should find you can get most of the geometry through quite easily and then if you wish you can tidy it further in VE ModelIT after. It's really all about trying it out to see what fits for you after you get some experience.

I guess the rooms above are voids of some kind, you have two options (that I believe are covered on these forums in the past) to either model only the space below and then use Inner Volumes representation in ModelIT to represent the voids via the Construction you assign for the roof.

The other way (how I would do it) would be to draw the voids as separate rooms and then you can assign these a thermal template to sow they are unconditioned before you start any analysis and this way the Construction for the roof only needs to represent the green roof

Phil

[Arch_boston]

Thank you very much, Phil. These are very helpful.

I also edited my post by adding some print screens while you were replying my post(I think), but you were very fast:)

These are also some print screens of my Sketchup model;
http://postimage.org/image/ial4fq31d/
I hided the green roof here;
http://postimage.org/image/ah4da9nc3/
This is a print screen after I imported it to IES;(I selected adjacent buildings and the roof as shade element.)
http://postimage.org/image/e0c0nvncl/

[PCully]

Only the first image worked for me

as an alternative I've found ImageShack fairly useful in the past

Phil