BEDES Dictionary

Global Terms
Term	Term Definition	Lists	Unit of Measure
Circadian Stimulus	CS - This metric indicates how well a one-hour exposure to a light source producing a certain light level and wavelength of light stimulates the circadian system, based on its ability to suppress the hormone melatonin. It ranges from 0.1, the threshold for circadian activation, to 0.7, which represents saturation.		None
Color	Color of a material or component. Can be applied to opaque surfaces, materials, and so forth.	View	None
Condition	Description of a component's condition.	View	None
Conditioning Status	A description of the state of "conditioning" of a premises or space, where conditioning is primarily concerned with heating, cooling and ventilation.	View	None
Consumption Rate	Rate at which resource is consumed by the system.		Unknown
Consumption Rate Type	Rate measurement type for resource consumption of the system.	View	None
Coordinate	Qualifier for various dimensional terms to clarify the coordinate direction	View	None
Date	Date		YYYY-MM-DD
Date Status	Status of the associated Date	View	None
Demand Response Participation	Demand response participation requires changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity over time, or to incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at times of high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardized.	View	None
Density	Mass per unit volume.		lbs/ft3
Depth	Dimension of the distance from the front to the back, such as the depth of structural framing in a wall or floor. It can also be the distance from the top to the bottom, such as the depth of a tank or pool of a component or material, such as the depth of the structural framing		ft
Description	A longer text description.		None
Diameter	Diameter of an object		ft
Dimension	A linear measurement in one direction. Can be used to generically describe this measurement, if needed.		ft
Duty Cycle	Percent of time the system operates.		percent
Effective R Value	The R-value of a complete construction including all material layers as well as the interior and exterior air film coefficients.		hr-ft2-F/Btu
Efficiency Metric Qualifier	The measure used to quantify efficiency	View	None
Efficiency Qualifier	Variations in the quantification of the effectiveness with which equipment, a product, process, or system performs.	View	None
Efficiency Value	The numeric value associated with an Efficiency Qualifier, given in the associated Efficiency Metric		Unknown
Eh	Illuminance (horizontal)		fc
Emittance	The capacity of a material to emit radiant energy. The ratio of the radiant flux emitted by a physical surface to that emitted by a blackbody at the same temperature and under the same conditions. It can be expressed as 1-(long-wave infrared absorptance) for materials that are not transparent in the long-wave infrared spectrum. Emittance is a surface property; values range from 0.05 for brightly polished metals to 0.96 for flat black paint. The emittance for most materials is 0.9.		None
Energy Software Tool	A software program that is used in some fashion to calculate the energy consumption of a building		None
Energy Software Tool Version	The release version of the software tool used to calculate energy performance of a building.		None
Equipment Rating	Formalized rating system for a given type of equipment.	View	None

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