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About Collections

Collections are similar to the shopping cart experience for consumer websites. When shopping online, you can create a wish list of things you might purchase later, create a list to compare price and features, or check-out products for purchase.

Collections in Thermal Envelope is the starting point for compiling a list of details just like a shopping cart. You can calculate overall thermal transmittance, collaborate with colleagues to mitigate the impact of thermal bridging, and create a report for the project documentation.

You can use Collections in Thermal Envelope to create lists of similar details or assemblies, list all the details for one construction type, or create a list of all the details that are part of the thermal transmittance calculations. These collection lists are used to compare the thermal quality of details to focus on opportunities to mitigate thermal bridging, create user defined catalogs, or calculate the overall thermal transmittance.

Listing

The main purpose of list scenarios is to collect the details that are being considered on a project and will be part of the thermal transmittance calculations. However, there are other reasons to gather details into a Collections bundle, such as responding to repetitive requests for example details that apply to a particular type of building or construction type. The Collections framework allows you the freedom to organize details and calculations that aligns with your workflow.

Comparing

The compare scenarios feature allows you to compare the thermal quality of assemblies and details by clear field, linear, and point transmittances. Scenarios are graphed and compared to applicable transmittance targets. There are also tools to estimate the required clear field transmittance that will meet an overall maximum transmittance target of the opaque building envelope for varying levels of thermal bridging mitigation. Guidance on targets and how to deal with thermal bridging during early design can be found in the Help section.

Calculating

The thermal calculator for Thermal Envelope is fully integrated with the Thermal Envelope database. The details and scenarios that are added to a Collection are accessible for overall thermal transmittance calculations. Users can also include user defined values in the calculations. The Thermal Calculator can replace the spreadsheets used in the past for thermal transmittance calculations or be the starting point for exporting to Excel sheets for offline calculations and reporting.

Reporting

Thermal Envelope streamlines project documentation by assembling the detailed input and thermal transmittance calculations of various scenarios into a project report. Project reports can be shared with the design team to summarize all the assumptions that went into the calculations or be part of the back-up for energy checklists and compliance documentation.