Zones with different height

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Dear All,

I built up two shells for a room with two different ceiling heights. And
then deleted the exterior walls. Now the BDL Load File Log shows some
warnings of no delayed wall, no delay ceiling for those spaces. Should I
ignore those warnings? Or try to fix them? Am I doing correctly to deal
with a zone with different heights in this way?

Thanks,

Jing

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Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your patient explanation. Yes, I did split a room into two zones
(and also two shells). And then deleted the overlapping exterior walls,
which should not exist. When you said "reflect what is actually happening
at the boundary". Does that mean you make the adjacent two zones the same
condition and work as one zone? Could you please clarify how to set that
up? I really appreciate.

Jing

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Hi Bruce,

I've attached the sketches of this building. As you see, the northeast
portion is higher than the rest, But actually they are in the same zone. I
had two shells attached to each other and deleted the overlapping walls. So
you think I should make is in one shell, and just set the plenum in
different heights?
Thank you so much for your time and effort.

Jing

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