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4. BUILDING-LOCATIONU-nameThe BUILDING-LOCATION instruction is used to specify the location andorientation of the building and other miscellaneous information about it.is not allowed.BUILDING-LOCATION This command tells LOADS that the data to follow are thelocation and orientation specifications for the building.LATITUDELONGITUDEALTITUDETIME-ZONEis the angular distance from the plane of the equator to theorigin of the building coordinate system. -It is specifiedin positive degrees for the northern hemisphere and negativedegrees for the southern hemisphere. Chapter VIII, TableVIII.l. gives the latitudes for many U.S. cities.is the angular distance from the prime meridian to theorigin of the building coordinate system. It is specifiedin either positive degrees (west) or negative degrees (east)from -180.0 to +180.0. Chapter VIII, Table VIII.l gives thelongitude for many U.S. cities.is the distance of the origin of the building coordinatesystem above (positive) or below (negative) mean sea level.It is expressed in feet. Note that if the user wishes toinput air flow rates and not have theprogramadjust themfor alillu-ae,-ALTITUDEsholiTd be set to zero. --for a building location is specified by the number of timezones, each 1 hour from the next, from the prime meridian.The values range from -1 to -12 for zones east of the primemer i di an and from 1 to 12 for zones west of the pr imemeridian. The following table identifies the TIME-ZONEvalues within the US by common time zone names.Time ZoneAtlantic 4Eas tern 5Central 6Mountain 7Pacific 8Yukon 9Hawa i i 10TIME-ZONE ValueWARNING: If the user does not specify values for LATITUDE, LONGITUDE,TIME-ZONE, GROUND-T, and CLEARNESS-NUMBER, default values will be taken fromthe weather file. This should not be a problem if the user is employing oneof the files provided with the DOE-2 program, because values for these fivekeywords have been defined on each of the DOE-2 weather fi les. However, ifthe user is employing other weather files, default values may not be defined.IIr.30 (Revi sed 5/81)