Plus:CollectingTheNecessaryData

Collecting the Necessary Data

Of course, WUFI Plus needs some data to perform the calculations. However, the equations built into WUFI Plus have been formulated in terms of quantities that are well known or readily available, or can easily be measured or estimated.

This is what WUFI Plus needs:

Building

The building to simulate needs to be defined with dimensions, components and windows.

Dimensions

To define the dimensions of the building, one has to use the building wizard. The building wizard offers two options: Automatic building generation or script generation.

In automatic mode, general measures and information about the building like:

• widths [m]
• depths [m]
• heights [m]
• roof geometry
• bottom offset
• number of stories
• story height
• orientation

and information about attached unheated zones are required.

In script mode, all edge points to define the building assemblies are needed. The orientation of the main facade, the kind of partition for every building component and the kind of attached zone for every attached zone are defined in the script.