The building location is specified in the APLocate utility; this is accessed from the toolbar or the Scotland Section 6 (2022) Apachesim compliance view tab > site location button.
Weather data for simulation-based Scotland Section 6 (2022) assessments is provided by CIBSE – a Test Reference Year (TRY) from the 2016 weather data set.
TRY’s and DSY files are provided for 14 UK locations:
· Belfast
· Birmingham
· Cardiff
· Edinburgh
· Glasgow * required for Scotland Section 6 (2022)
· Leeds
· London
· Manchester
· Newcastle
· Norwich
· Nottingham
· Plymouth
· Southampton
· Swindon
A licence to use this data must be obtained from CIBSE. IES acts as an agent for CIBSE and the licence to use the data may be purchased online via the IES website (https://www.iesve.com/support/weatherfiles). If you use this option, copies of the files in the IES .fwt format will be provided with installation instructions.
