Hot Water Storage Vessels Where you have a number of hot water storage vessels that have exactly the same fuel type and efficiencyof operation, these can be entered into SBEM as one system incorporati...
This convention only applies where at least one zone within the building is not conditioned by fixedconditioning equipment, e.g. heating, cooling or mechanical ventilation. The flow chart below (‘zone...
All kitchen area extraction or mechanical ventilation equipment is to be included as part of the SBEMassessment process, in order to account for the additional energy requirements for the conditioning...
Where a zone is without any form of fixed conditioning equipment, but at least 50% of the surroundingenvelope area including party walls, party floors and party ceilings is adjacent to directlyconditi...
There are three scenarios that should be dealt with when assessing a locally and centrally conditionedindividual shop in a shopping centre: 1. The unit has local heating or Air Conditioning and receiv...
Where a bivalent system i.e. 'One in which the heating is supplied by two (or more) different types of heatsource' is present in a zone within the building under assessment, entries are required to sp...
If a building’s original lighting design is available, and there is no discrepancy between that and the observedlighting within the building, the wattage and lux values, from that design, should be en...
Lux level readings, taken by an assessor, may only be used for the production of an EPC if the readingshave been recorded in line with the Society of Light & Lighting’s Code for Lighting 2009. Evidenc...
Where a zone contains both general lighting and display lighting, and for the selected activity SBEMassumes the presence of display lamps, then the display lighting and the general lighting must be en...
Where zones incorporate an activity whereby SBEM automatically assumes the presence of displaylighting but none is actually present, the display lighting efficiency for SBEM shall be entered such that...