The next tutorial involved the analysis of the building made in the previous tutorial.
The first step was to check the zones were separate.
Next I had to specify what climate the house was in. I chose to import the climate data for Perth W.A.
I then could choose each seperate zone and view what the outside temperature was compared to the internal temperature.
Through the graph I could see the internal gains were too high.
I then went into the hourly heat gains and losses to see what was causing the high levels of internal heat gain. The graph showed that it was comming in through the ceiling as it was not insulated.So I went back to the model, assigned the ceiling as plasterboard with insulation and recalculated the graph.
This process fixed the heat gain from that source and showed the direct link between insulation and heat gain.
This process will be very helpful to the energy efficient design of my final module.