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Conditioned Area Totals

Architect should be directed toward the Chief Architect is unable to provide any
company providing the estimating software. technical support for third party programs.

Conditioned Area Totals
Conditioned Area is the space within a You can, however, specify that any room be
building that is heated and/or air conditioned, included in or excluded from the
and a Thermal Envelope is a three Conditioned Area, in the Room
dimensional boundary built around the Specification dialog. See “General Panel”
Conditioned Space that separates it from the on page 435.
unconditioned space around it. Thermal
Envelopes are composed of floor platforms, Building Orientation
ceiling platforms, walls, doors, and windows.
Walls, doors, and windows are categorized as
When a Materials List is created, Chief north-, south-, east-, or west-facing for the
Architect calculates the total areas of the purposes of conditioned area totals. These
components that make up a structure’s directions are based on the orientation of the
Thermal Envelope and lists them in the
General category of the Materials List. See plan’s North Pointer . If no North
“Categories” on page 1268. Pointer is used, north is assumed to be
straight up on screen in floor plan view. See
Doors are always categorized as doors rather “North Pointer” on page 1098.
than as windows. This is the case even when • If a wall is oriented at 45º or less to north
a door is specified as a Glass Door or when it in a plan, it will be categorized as a
is part of a mulled unit.
“North” wall. Any doors and windows in
Chief Architect does not check plans for this wall will also be categorized as
compliance with building or energy codes; “North”.
however, you can export relevant thermal • Similarly, walls, doors, and windows ori-
envelope data from a plan file for use in ented within 45º of south, east, or west
™
REScheck . See “Export to REScheck” on will be classified as “South”, “East” or
page 1197. “West”, respectively.
The orientation of a curved wall is based on
Conditioned Area the direction of its chord. See “Drawing Arcs
With the exception of Unspecified rooms, - Arc Creation Modes” on page 305.
rooms that are assigned an interior Room
Type are included in the Conditioned Area The General Category
by default. “Open Below” rooms are also
included; however, other hybrid Room Types The General category of the Materials List
as well as exterior Room Types are not. See lists information about the Thermal Envelope
“Room Types and Functions” on page 414. of the current plan. The total linear length of
each wall type used in the plan is also

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