Passive 1 - Materials - High Performance Window

Material choices have an immense impact on energy performance. This section will illustrate how Honeybee handles materials by modeling high-performance windows.

1.01 Here is an overview of all the modules we will add throughout the chapter on Passive Techniques. This is baseed directly upon the single-zone model we created before. The original elements appear in light grey groups below, and new elements appear in yellow.

1.02 Zooming in, you can see that we will create a construction for a high performance window, and connect it to the Honeybee_addHBGlz component. This will replace the default assumption about glazing with our specifications for a high-performance window.

1.06 Assign the U-Value as 2, Solar Heat Gain Coefficient as 0.25, and Visible Transmittance of the window as 0.55. The U-Value is a measure of insulation, the Solar Heat Gain Coefficient is a measure of how much solar energy enters the glass, and Visible Transmittance is a measure of how much visible light enters the window.

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