[esp-r] Re: Thermal mass

[Aizaz Samuel]

You can either create back to back surfaces hanging in mid air within the zone 
or make columns hanging in mid air. As long as these surfaces are fully 
bounded (similar to fully bounded normal geometrical zones) you will not get 
a warning.

-Aizaz

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 11:33, Felipe Durán wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am currently working on the analysis of an open plan office building with
> columns in a 8x8 mt. grid. How can make esp-r take into account the thermal
> mass of those columns? Is it possible to define a sort of blocks or zones
> that represent the columns into the zone?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Felipe Duran Palma
> Arquitecto PUC, MPhil. U. Cambridge.
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