energy:ThermalZone

Type

Feature Type

Definition

A thermal zone is a zone of a building which serves as unit for the building heating and cooling simulation. For the simulation, a thermal zone is considered as isothermal.
It is a semantic object, which may be or not related to a geometric entity.

Belongs to module

energy:Energy-ADE

Derived from

core:_CityObject

Attributes and associations

Name

Type

core:creationDate

Date

core:terminationDate

Date

core:externalReference

ExternalReference

core:generalizesTo

_CityObject

core:relativeToTerrain

RelativeToTerrain

core:relativeToWater

RelativeToWater

core:appearance

AbstractAppearance

core:genericAttribute

AbstractGenericAttribute

energy:additionalThermalBridgeUValue

Measure

energy:effectiveThermalCapacity

Measure

energy:floorArea

FloorArea

energy:grossVolume

Volume

energy:relates

UsageZone

energy:indirectlyHeatedAreaRatio

Scale

energy:infiltrationRate

Measure

energy:isCooled

Boolean

energy:isHeated

Boolean

energy:netVolume

Volume

energy:volumeGeometry

GM_Solid

energy:interiorRoom

Room

energy:boundedBy

ThermalBoundary



Attribute type: core:creationDate

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Definition

Date the city object was generated.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Date



Attribute type: core:terminationDate

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Definition

????

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Date



Attribute type: core:externalReference

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Definition

Reference to a corresponding object in another information system, for example in the German cadastre (ALKIS), the German topographic information system (ATKIS), or the OS MasterMap®.

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

ExternalReference (DataType)



Attribute type: core:generalizesTo

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Definition

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

_CityObject



Attribute type: core:relativeToTerrain

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Definition

Location of the city object relative to the surrounding terrain.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

RelativeToTerrain (Enumeration)



Code

Text

entirelyAboveTerrain

entirelyAboveTerrain

Object is located entirely above terrain.

substantiallyAboveTerrain

substantiallyAboveTerrain

Most, but not all parts of the object are located above terrain.

substantiallyAboveAndBelowTerrain

substantiallyAboveAndBelowTerrain

Parts of the object are located above terrain, and other parts below terrain.

substantiallyBelowTerrain

substantiallyBelowTerrain

Most, but not all parts of the object are located below terrain.

entirelyBelowTerrain

entirelyBelowTerrain

All parts of the object are located below terrain.



Attribute type: core:relativeToWater

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Definition

Location of the city object relative to the surrounding water surface.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

RelativeToWater (Enumeration)



Code

Text

entirelyAboveWaterSurface

entirelyAboveWaterSurface

Object is located entirely above water surface..

substantiallyAboveWaterSurface

substantiallyAboveWaterSurface

Most, but not all parts of the object are located above water surface.

substantiallyAboveAndBelowWaterSurface

substantiallyAboveAndBelowWaterSurface

Parts of the object are located above water surface, and other parts below water surface.

substantiallyBelowWaterSurface

substantiallyBelowWaterSurface

Most, but not all parts of the object are located below water surface.

entirelyBelowWaterSurface

entirelyBelowWaterSurface

All parts of the object are located below water surface.

temporarilyAboveAndBelowWaterSurface

temporarilyAboveAndBelowWaterSurface

The height of the water surface is varying and the object temporily is located above or below water level.



Attribute type: core:appearance

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Definition

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

AbstractAppearance



Attribute type: core:genericAttribute

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Definition

Additional property of the city object

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

AbstractGenericAttribute (DataType)



Attribute type: energy:additionalThermalBridgeUValue

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Definition

Transmission heat loss contribution [W/m².K] of the thermal bridges of the thermal zone shell to the overall UValue.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Measure



Attribute type: energy:effectiveThermalCapacity

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Definition

Thermal capacity [Wh/K] of the zone including the contributing construction layers and zone fournitures.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Measure



Attribute type: energy:floorArea

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Definition

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

FloorArea



Attribute type: energy:grossVolume

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Definition

Volume of a Thermal Zone measured by its external dimensions. These external dimensions lies on the outside face of exterior boundaries (e.g. wall, roof) and at the middle of boundaries shared by several Thermal Zone (e.g. shared wall, intermediary floor), so that the sum of the Building Thermal Zone grossVolume equals the Building grossVolume.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Volume (Type)



Attribute type: energy:relates

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Definition

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

UsageZone



Attribute type: energy:indirectlyHeatedAreaRatio

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Definition

[find precise definition]

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Scale



Attribute type: energy:infiltrationRate

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Definition

Air change rate [1/h] due to air leakage of the zone shell.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Measure



Attribute type: energy:isCooled

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Definition

true if the thermal zone has energy system for space cooling

Cardinality

1

Data type

Boolean (Enumeration)



Code

Text

1

TRUE

0

FALSE



Attribute type: energy:isHeated

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Definition

true if the thermal zone has energy system for space heating

Cardinality

1

Data type

Boolean (Enumeration)



Code

Text

1

TRUE

0

FALSE



Attribute type: energy:netVolume

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Definition

Volume of the air space of a Thermal Zone.

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

Volume (Type)



Attribute type: energy:volumeGeometry

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Definition

Cardinality

0..1

Data type

GM_Solid (Type)



Attribute type: energy:interiorRoom

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Definition

Cardinality

0..*

Data type

Room



Attribute type: energy:boundedBy

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Definition

Cardinality

1..*

Data type

ThermalBoundary