Legislative Region and Insulation Standards

Region tab on model data at Site level

 

The data on the tab is related to the Legislative Region and associated insulation standards of the site.

Legislative region

A Legislative region in DesignBuilder is typically a whole country or a region, province or state within a country which has its own building control powers. The legislative region contains information on:

 

Include Fuel Emissions

You can optionally request fuel emissions output data from EnergyPlus simulations for each fuel individually. Outputs are requested individually because a large number of pollutants are involved for each fuel. When this data is requested the pollution caused by each fuel type is reported in the eso file and a summary is provided in the Summary output file.

 

 

The input data for the fuel emission calculations comes from the Emissions tab of the Legislative regions template dialog. Inputs are only included in EnergyPlus IDF for the selected fuels.