Geometry - Commercial

This 68-minute course, part of a seven-part series, focuses on mastering advanced commercial building geometry and specification within the Better Buildings application. Building upon foundational knowledge from the residential geometry course, this session delves into features crucial for commercial projects.

Key Course Content:

Project Initialisation & Advanced Drawing (0:00 - 0:09): Learn to set up commercial projects, leveraging a pre-built Brisbane-based model. Review foundational drawing skills like adding, editing, and splitting zones, crucial for complex layouts. Understand how basic geometry forms 60% of the modelling effort.

Component Specification & Tagging (0:10 - 0:19): Explore the critical role of "tagging" for efficient specification of windows, doors, and other components. Understand how tags link geometry to performance values (e.g., U-values, SHGC). Learn to apply pre-defined "space types" (e.g., Office, 9B class) from Australian or international templates, setting occupancy, lighting, and HVAC parameters.

Void Spaces & Air Boundaries (0:20 - 0:30): Discover how to model multi-height spaces, including voids and continuous high-volume areas, using duplicated levels and internal air boundaries. Understand how these elements impact conditioned and unconditioned spaces in the model.

Detailed Shading & Levels (0:30 - 0:49): Master the application of static and dynamic shading devices, exploring various projection types, gaps, and rotations. Learn to distribute shading efficiently via tagging, at specific levels (e.g., canopies), and at the site level (e.g., adjacent buildings, trees with detailed canopies).

Complex Roof Systems & PV (0:50 - 1:01): Understand the intricacies of modelling diverse roof types (single/double pitch, hips) with detailed eaves and offsets. Learn to troubleshoot geometry errors related to roof creation and "projected ceilings," where insulation aligns with the roofline. Add and configure solar PV arrays, including tilt, azimuth, and efficiency.

Material Overrides & HVAC Schematics (1:02 - 1:08): Explore options for specifying material performance, including custom titles and syncing with external design data. Understand how to integrate basic HVAC system schematics (e.g., VRF) to enable full model simulation.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will gain proficiency in the advanced geometry and specification features of Better Buildings, enabling them to confidently create complex commercial building models ready for detailed carbon, daylight, and HVAC simulations.

Course Completion:

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded upon achieving an 80% pass mark on the final quiz.

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