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The VE-Compliance Part L2 (2013) SBEM Compliance output document is indicating that the lighting energy consumption is too high. How do I adjust this?

Is it done via the building template manager under the internal gains section?


Thanks

Hi,

Define "too high"?

To edit lighting for any room you can access it on NCM Lighting Data dialog via the Building Regs tab. It is set room by room and if you are running with defaults will be using values for the NCM Room Activity assigned.

For DSM ApacheSim it is edited via Internal Gains.

Both methods have tabular room data interfaces for the lighting that you can use to review the settings or make changes. In ApacheSim method you also have option to switch into Notional Building and directly review what is being applied there.

You can review the User Guides for SBEM or Apache via Help >> User Guides >> Thermal VE Compliance category has them all for the relevant regulations and method you are using but really I'd also suggest some training so you know your way around the interface, what you can edit and where.

Phil

Thanks for the advice Phil, and apologies for the basic questions. My training was several years ago and it has been quite some time since I have used the software.

The Output document indicates that the lighting energy consumption for the notional building should be 34.39 kWh/m², while the actual consumption is 34.39 kWh/m².

I now see I can adjust the lighting via the NCM Lighting Data. This is on a room by room basis. Is it possible to do a global change?

Hi,

Tabular room data is the best way to make global changes to room properties. If you load the SBEM data then you have access to a tabular NCM Lighting Data tab

Phil