Modelling terraced houses

[JamesLeeson]

What is the best way to model a terraced home so that you accurately model its heating energy use?

As far as I'm aware you can make the buildings either side into adjacent buildings but this results in an adiabatic boundary between the houses. I'm trying to make the model as accurate as possible and I'm sure that a mid-terrace house benefits from having houses either side so I wondered if there was any way of more accurately modelling its heating energy use?

I have also tried modelling 3 houses then selecting only the rooms of the middle house. I then obtained results from the sensible heating load function in vista. This resulted in slightly less energy use as I would expect but due to my inexperience with IES I'm not sure whether it is an accurate way of obtaining results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

James

[PCully]

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