What is Part L Ireland (2017) VE-SBEM?
Overview of Part L Ireland (2017)
What is an Approved Document?
Overview of VE-SBEM interface features
Part L Ireland (2017) SBEMie constitutes one of the Regulatory Frameworks covered by the VE Compliance view of the Virtual Environment. A brief summary of its features follows.
Interface features shared with other Regulatory Frameworks
The VE Compliance view covers the following Regulatory Frameworks, which may be selected using the Regulatory Framework (Regs) selector on the VE Compliance toolbar:
· Part L2 (2010) – England/Wales
· Part F (2012) – N Ireland
· Section 6 (2013) – Scotland
· Part L2 (2013) – England
· Part L2 (2014) – Wales
· UK Dwellings
· Section 6 (2015) – Scotland
· Part L (2017) – Ireland
The VE Compliance view offers the following Methods, which may be selected using the Method selector on the VE Compliance toolbar:
· SBEMie – compliance
· SBEMie – BER
This Guide covers the two methods above, in conjunction with selecting Part L (2017) from the Regulatory Framework (Regs) selector on the toolbar.
The different Regulations all share core features of the VE Compliance view, such as the model workspace, the browsers, the menus and the toolbars. For a description of these please consult the VE Compliance View User Guide.
Actual, Reference and Notional buildings
Under the SBEMie method, the actual, reference and notional buildings are generated within SBEMie and their properties cannot be viewed.
Building regulations room data
Data relating to individual rooms is entered via the Room Data tabs. General Building Regulations data, such as the room ‘activity’, is specified on the Building Regulations tab. SBEMie specific data, including all Lighting data is also entered on this tab.
Other tabs specify data for room conditioning, systems and Transpire Solar Collectors.
Editing of room data can be done via Tabular Room Data:
The internal gain data for the room’s Building type and Activity is read by SBEMie from its own copy of the NCM database, so Room Data’s Internal gain and Air exchange tabs are not visible (as they would be for the ApacheSim method).
HVAC and hot water systems
HVAC and hot water systems for SBEMie are described using counterparts of the parameters appearing in the iSBEM interface.
Building regulations construction data
Building regulations data relating to constructions (for instance, whether a window is classified as display glazing) is entered via fields labelled ‘Building Regulations’ within the construction data dialogs in CDB.
Part L Ireland analysis and results
The Part L analysis and results dialog on the lower edge of the VE Compliance view is divided into two tabs:
Part L (2017) - Ireland - Analysis: facilities for specifying the Part L analysis to be performed.
Results: facilities for viewing the results of the analysis.
The content of the first of these tabs depends on the room selection.
When at least one room is selected it displays editable data for the NCM activities assigned to the selected rooms.
When no room is selected it provides access to the Building & System Data dialog, which displays data at building or system level required by the BRIRL compliance and BER generation modules, together with thermal bridging data.
In either case the tab also displays options for running compliance or BER analyses.
The Results tab displays the results of the compliance or BER analysis.
