As of the 2015.i version, CYPECAD MEP allows users to introduce values for the heating and cooling thermal loads of the precincts. These values will then be used to design and check the thermal emitters and air conditioning generators. This way, users can choose to apply, for each precinct, the load calculation carried out by the program or manually introduce the thermal load values themselves. Heating loads and cooling loads can be defined separately, hence users can opt to provide one set and have the program calculate the other set if they wish so. The design and check of the thermal emitters and generators is carried out based on the user defined values or, if not available, using the values calculated by the program.
To define the cooling loads, the maximum load and maximum simultaneous load, latent and sensible, values must be provided. For heating loads, only the maximum load and maximum simultaneous load have to be indicated. In both cases, the thermal load introduced in each precinct can be indicated in terms of total power or power per unit area.
The values of the thermal loads introduced by users can be exported to thermal load libraries so they may be used in different precincts.
