Hello
I?m modeling a 14 floor Multifamily High Rise building, but It has to have
Balconies in the fa?ade, there are 4 departments per floor oriented in west
and east facades, the balcony must be in the living room and master suit
too, my question is: Do I have to model balcony per balcony in each
department and floor? Because if it is the case, there will be like 60
balcony.
Is there any way to model the balconies in group, instead of do it as a
fixed shape separately?
Thanks in advance
Juan Carlos L?pez
Hi Juan,
If you model the balconies as window overhangs, and you don't have a ton of unique balcony footprints, it isn't terribly labor-intensive to address, particularly if you pick this up during the wizards. Attached are a few past discussions / illustrations covering that strategy further.
Circumstances allowing, it *might* be easier/quicker to approximate the balconies along any given orientation as a series of building shades, but in most cases I think you'll find it less time consuming to check out the window fin/overhang inputs first.
If you should have any "exterior" lighting/fans/outlets/etc. to model at those balconies, you can either include those inputs inside the apartments or define them as exterior loads on the meter.
~Nick
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NICK CATON, P.E.
Hi Juan,
I have an alternate suggestion for you. I have always calculated an
equivalent R-value for the walls with balconies (taking into account the
effect of the thermal bridging created by the extended slab) and made a
separate representative wall construction...this seemed to be an easier
(but still accurate) approach to me.
Chris