With the appropriate settings entered into the Section 63 tab in Building & System Data (see Assessment Settings for Section 63 ), you are now ready to generate the first draft Action Plan for the building. To do so, click the Generate action plan button on the Section 6 (2015) – Scotland – Analysis tab below the viewport:
When clicked, this button will start an Apache DSM simulation of the model with the identified prescribed improvement measures applied – this simulation is necessary to calculate the target savings for the prescriptive measures compared to the actual building alone. Note that the improvement measures are not applied to the actual building, as this would change its state – the measures are applied for the simulation only.
Once the simulation is completed (this may take some time, depending on the size and complexity of your building model) and the results file downloaded, the Action Plan will be generated and the Results tab will be automatically activated:
The Results tab will display the target annual savings values for both CO2 and Energy. Note that you can hover over the values with the mouse cursor to see the comparative values for the actual building only and the building with the identified prescriptive measures applied:
To view the draft Action Plan, click the View Action Plan button – this will open the action plan in your default PDF viewer application.
You can also view the Action Plan using the Content Manager – select Content Manager… from the Tools menu in the VE.
The contents of 4. Generating a Prescribed Measures Action Plan
