A list of two integers for [month, day], representing the date for the day of the year on which the design day occurs. A third integer may be added to denote whether the date should be re-serialized for a leap year (it should be a 1 in this case).

Value between 0 and 1.2 that will get multiplied by the irradiance to correct for factors like elevation above sea level.

Boolean to indicate whether daylight savings time is active on the design day.

A list of two integers for [month, day], representing the date for the day of the year on which the design day occurs. A third integer may be added to denote whether the date should be re-serialized for a leap year (it should be a 1 in this case).

Value for the beam optical depth. Typically found in .stat files.

Value for the diffuse optical depth. Typically found in .stat files.

Boolean to indicate whether daylight savings time is active on the design day.

A list of two integers for [month, day], representing the date for the start of daylight savings time. Default: 12 Mar (daylight savings in the US in 2017).

Text string for a unique design day name. This name remains constant as the object is mutated, copied, and serialized to different formats (eg. dict, idf, osm). It is also used to reference the object within SimulationParameters. It must be < 100 characters, use only ASCII characters and exclude (, ; ! \n \t).

Used to specify dry bulb conditions on a design day.

Used to specify humidity conditions on a design day.

Used to specify wind conditions on a design day.

The maximum dry bulb temperature on the design day [C].

The difference between min and max temperatures on the design day [C].

The value correcponding to the humidity_type.

Barometric air pressure on the design day [Pa].

Boolean to indicate rain on the design day.

A list of two integers for [month, day], representing the date for the start of the run period. Must be before the end date.

A list of two integers for [month, day], representing the date for the end of the run period. Must be after the start date.

A list of lists where each sub-list consists of two integers for [month, day], representing a date which is a holiday within the simulation. If None, no holidays are applied.

A DaylightSavingTime to dictate the start and end dates of daylight saving time. If None, no daylight saving time is applied to the simulation.

Integer for the number of days in each period for which a unique shadow calculation will be performed. This field is only used if the Periodic calculation_method is used.

Boolean for whether the zone sizing calculation should be run.

Boolean for whether the system sizing calculation should be run.

Boolean for whether the plant sizing calculation should be run.

Boolean for whether the simulation should be run for the sizing periods.

A list of EnergyPlus output names as strings, which are requested from the simulation.

A list of EnergyPlus summary report names as strings.

A SimulationOutput that lists the desired outputs from the simulation and the format in which to report them.

A RunPeriod to describe the time period over which to run the simulation.

An integer for the number of timesteps per hour at which the energy calculation will be run.

A SimulationControl object that describes which types of calculations to run.

A ShadowCalculation object describing settings for the EnergyPlus Shadow Calculation.

A SizingParameter object with criteria for sizing the heating and cooling system.

A number between -360 and 360 for the north direction in degrees.This is the counterclockwise difference between the North and the positive Y-axis. 90 is West and 270 is East. Note that this is different than the convention used in EnergyPlus, which uses clockwise difference instead of counterclockwise difference.

A list of DesignDays that represent the criteria for which the HVAC systems will be sized.

A number that will be multiplied by the peak heating load for each zone in order to size the heating system.

A number that will be multiplied by the peak cooling load for each zone in order to size the heating system.

Text to specify the efficiency standard, which will automatically set the efficiencies of all HVAC equipment when provided. Note that providing a standard here will cause the OpenStudio translation process to perform an additional sizing calculation with EnergyPlus, which is needed since the default efficiencies of equipment vary depending on their size. THIS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE TRANSLATION TIME TO OPENSTUDIO. However, it is often worthwhile when the goal is to match the HVAC specification with a particular standard.

Text indicating the ASHRAE climate zone to be used with the efficiency_standard. When unspecified, the climate zone will be inferred from the design days on this sizing parameter object.

Text for the building type to be used in the efficiency_standard. If the type is not recognized or is None, it will be assumed that the building is a generic NonResidential. The following have specified systems per the standard: Residential, NonResidential, MidriseApartment, HighriseApartment, LargeOffice, MediumOffice, SmallOffice, Retail, StripMall, PrimarySchool, SecondarySchool, SmallHotel, LargeHotel, Hospital, Outpatient, Warehouse, SuperMarket, FullServiceRestaurant, QuickServiceRestaurant, Laboratory, Courthouse.

Wind speed on the design day [m/s].