The General tab displays general data about the room, including its name, ID, floor area measures and templates.
The NCM Template is unique to VE Compliance, and is used to import the NCM activity data applicable to the room. Each heated or occupied room (defined using the ‘Type of room’ setting on the ‘Building Regs’ tab) must be assigned an NCM activity. This defines the standard operation pattern of the room for the purpose of Scotland Section 6 (2022), which is defined by attributes on the various Room Data tabs. The assignment of these Room Data attributes is effected by the NCM template corresponding to the activity.
Each NCM building type has a predefined list of NCM activities available to its rooms.
As noted above, it is recommended that the NCM activity is set as an attribute of the Room Template. This saves work as it means that the activity will be automatically set for all rooms assigned that template. An NCM activity is only meaningful in the context of a building type, so this, too, must be set in the template.
If the NCM activity is set in the template it may (like other template settings) be overridden in the room by un-ticking the Template check box and selecting an alternative activity from the drop-down list.
For unheated rooms (those with Type of room set to anything other than Heated room), the NCM activity is undefined and is not displayed. In this case a special NCM template called ‘NCM unheated space’ is automatically assigned to the room.
