BEDES Dictionary

Version 2.6

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Premises
Term	Term Definition	Lists	Unit of Measure
Walking Score	A walkability index based on the time to walk from a property to nearby essentials such as grocery stores, schools, churches, etc. See www.walkscore.com for more information and requirements for using WalkScore.		None
Water Fixture Type	A water fixture is an exchangeable device which can be connected to a plumbing system to deliver and drain water.	View	None
Water Metered Premises	Designation of what areas within the premises are covered by water meters.	View	None
Weather Data Station ID	For an actual weather station, this is the ID assigned by NOAA. For hourly energy simulations, this is the six digit code associated with the hourly weather data, generally found in the name of the weather data file, as well as in the header of the data file.		None
Weather Data Type	For hourly energy simulations, the type of data used in the hourly weather data. This information is generally found in the name of the weather data file, as well as in the header of the data file. In the United States, the normal type of data is Typical Meteorological Year (TMY), which represent a year of typical climatic conditions for a location. The data set is composed of 12 months of typical meteorological data concatenated to form a single year with a complete data set for primary measurements. The monthly data sets contain actual meteorological measurements and modeled solar values.	View	None
Weather Metric	Metric related to weather.	View	None
Weather Metric Value	Value for the weather metric.		Unknown
Weather Station Category	Describes the type of weather station used to specify the site's weather.	View	None
Weather Station Name	The name of the weather station associated with this premises, which could be used for simulations, weather normalization, anomaly resolution, etc. For simulations, this is usually the name of the weather file, but the name is also in the header of the data file (TMY, IWEC), such as USA_CO_Denver.Intl.AP.		None

Contact
Term	Term Definition	Lists	Unit of Measure
Account Status	The status of customer's account or application. Example: the building profile submission process for Portfolio Manager.	View	None
Address Label	Characterization of the address	View	None
Address Line 1	This address represents a complete street address, including street number, street name, prefixes, suffixes, modifiers, and unit number.		None
Address Line 2	Information other than a prefix or suffix for the street portion of a postal address.		None
Address Number	The numeric identifier for a land parcel, house, building, or other location along a thoroughfare or within a community.		None
Address Number Prefix	The portion of the complete address number which precedes the Address Number itself.		None
Address Number Suffix	The portion of the complete address number which follows the Address Number itself. In some areas the street number may contain non-numeric characters. This field can also contain extensions and modifiers to the street number, such as "1/2" or "-B". This street number field should not include Prefixes, Direction or Suffixes.		None
Address Separator Element	A symbol, word, or phrase used as a separator between components of a complex element or class. The separator is required for intersection addresses and for two number address ranges, and it may be used in constructing a complete address name. Example separator elements are: "and", "at", "@", "&", "-", "/". Can also include prepositional phrases like in "Avenue of the Americas", the Address Separator Element = "of the".		None
Authorization	Designated if third party has been granted authorization.	View	None
Authorization Date	Date the authorization was granted.		YYYY-MM-DD
City	City		None
Company Name	Company name		None
Contact ID	Identification number associated with the contact.		None
Contact Label	Characterization of the contact.	View	None
Contact Name	Name of the contact when not full name or company name		None
Contact Title	The title or position of the contact within their organization.		None

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