Master in Engineering Design 1. Introduction. 2. Work Description - In+

3. Input Data
3.1. Local Weather
The first data to be transferred in to the HAP program was the information about
geographical location of the building, the nature of local time and soil properties.
Parameters like the temperature, humidity and solar radiation conditions are central to the
sizing and simulation processes.
Two distinct kinds of weather data exist:
3.1.1. Design Weather Data
Used to perform cooling and heating design load estimates (see append A).
3.1.2. Simulation Weather Data
Required to perform 8760 hour energy simulations. Results of these simulations
were used to compute annual energy use and energy.
3.2. Cinema Theatre Space
The cinema space must be defined so system design calculations or energy simulations
can be performed. A space consists of a number of walls, roofs, windows and internal heat
gains that influence heat transfer into and out of the space (see append B)
3.3. Schedules
Schedules define the hourly and daily behavior of the characteristics of a building and its
HVAC equipment. Each profile contains data for one 24 hour period and are assigned to
the different days of the week and months of the year (see append L).
3.4. Systems
The components included on the program were fans, coils, ductwork, supply terminals and
controls. Also when performed the energy analysis of other components like heat pumps,
electric resistances and combustion heating components the information collected from
there were considered by the program (see append C).
3.5. Plants
4. Sizing
A Plant is the equipment and controls which provide chilled water to cooling coils, or hot
water or steam to heating coils. Examples include chiller plants, hot water boiler plants and
steam boiler plants (see append D).
This is a calculation process to determine the equipment specifications like airflow rates, supply
terminal characteristics and coil capacities for HAVC systems (see append E).