Building Floor Areas
Created by: RomainNouvel
Many different floor area definitions exist, depending on the application (e.g. heating, living, working), the country. In US, you have for instance the choice between gross floor area, gross internal area, net internal area, usable floor area... with sizeable difference of results when you're using consumption ratio and criterias refering to them. In the version 0.5, different Floor areas are used in _AbstractBuilding (referenceHeatedFloorArea) and in ThermalZone (heatedFloorArea, cooledFloorArea). This is quite incomplete and confusing... PROPOSITION:
- replace referenceHeatedFloorArea by a type FloorArea precising the area and the area definition (CodeList?), which could be associated to _AbstractBuilding, _ThermalZone, _UsageZone etc.
- replace heatedFloorArea and cooledFloorArea of ThermalZone by this new type FloorArea and the parameters isHeated[Boolean] and isCooled[Boolean]