The Building tree object occupies the next highest position in the hierarchy below that of the Site tree object. A building can contain multiple floors which contain multiple zones, rooms, and roofs.

The Building object, when selected, provides an entry point to the project data on the Properties For: Building dialog. Here, you can modify basic data such as the building’s name, address and building type (high rise, hotel, residence, hospital, etc.). There are also Dimensions, Operations and Climate properties that when manipulated, define specific assumptions that affect the thermal calculations and energy simulations that are performed on the project building. These options are initially defined with default values as determined by the settings on the Defaults Manager dialog.

The Properties For: Building dialog also contains two Economics properties panels in which you can define the building economics data including Fuel factors and Cost tariffs.