Legislative Region Templates

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.

In current versions of the software a Legislative Region contains information on:

• Local energy codes/building regulations.
• Carbon dioxide emission factors are provided for a range of fuels.

The current regions database is only sparsely populated with useful data (most of that is from countries within Europe).  But we expect to expand this in time.

There are three tabs on the Legislative Region Template dialog:

• General
• Standard insulation
• Emissions

Template data can be accessed:

• from the Templates tab on the opening screen (if no file is open),
• from the Templates tab in the Navigator panel (if a file is open),
• by double-clicking on the template icon in the model data,
• by clicking on the Edit button when selecting templates from a list.