Hi Talal,

A few quick pointers:

? Considering your intent to keep this a simple model: Unless you have a very good reason for engaging the compliance rulesets (LEED, 90.1)? I advise you to set the jurisdiction to ?- other -" in the first wizard project data screen to avoid unnecessary complexity & erroneous cautions/warnings/errors in your model:

Also, once past wizards, ensure ?Code & Version? within ?Project Properties? at the top of the component tree is set to ?- none -"

? To tell the wizards your basement shell is below grade, switch the associated 0 and 1 inputs here (check & further adjust position inputs if needed based on the resulting 3D view).

? To intelligently ?pre-populate? the activity/usage/occupancy inputs for a given shell at a high level (achieving the distinction between ?office? / ?multifamily? / ?retail? building occupancy types), you can utilize the ?Building Type? dropdown in the same initial wizard screen for each shell. Note this will probably require you to re-assign the floorplate geometries & other inputs to follow, however.

? Since your floors do not have unique floorplates/zoning presently, I would advise considering defining fewer shells with multiple floors to simplify your inputs.

? In any case, be mindful you don?t create ?sandwiched? exposed roof and ground floor surfaces along the way (pay attention to screen 3 inputs for each shell).

? Even though you want this to stay simple, I advise you to consider at minimum core+perimeter zoning in the 2nd screen for each shell to begin to capture more realistic system behavior for a building of this size.

? I presume Toronto is the closest weather file to Ottowa in the CWEC library, so that?s why your building landed there for simulation. You can probably most quickly get an Ottowa-specific file downloaded for simulation with this wizard input combo:

After some of the above improvements, you?ll need to explore the simulation results further & qualify for yourself/others why the electricity consumption in particular seems low (compared to what, to start)? From there you can come up with further inputs/adjustments to get your simulation where it needs to be, for your purposes. I do notice you have pretty large baseboard being generated (in turn heating via gas boilers, not electricity) which are picking up a majority of your building?s space heating needs in lieu of the electric heatpump heating you?ve specified. Could be a place to start.

Best of luck!

~Nick

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