BEDES Dictionary

Global Terms
Term	Term Definition	Lists	Unit of Measure
Offset	Distance from the edge of a surface to another surface or object. Offset can be used to help describe a building shape, as used in Commercial Asset Score Tool. It can also be used to describe the location of a window in a wall, where offset is used to describe the distance from the edge of al wall to the edge of a window frame		ft
Occupant Usage Units	Measurement units for typical occupant usage	View	None
Notes	Brief note on additional information.		None
Model Number	Model or catalogue number that can be used to identify more detailed component or asset characteristics.		None
Manufacturer	Manufacturer of the product.		None
Make	Equipment identification indicating manufacturer and or high-level category of equipment		None
Luminance	The photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction, expressed in candelas per square meter (cd/m2).		cd/m2
Location	Spatial location or installation location. This can apply to systems, opaque surfaces, etc.	View	None
Length	The longest dimension of an object. This can be used to define the length of any building component, such as ductwork or piping, or an opaque surface such as a wall or floor.		ft
Insulation Continuity	Insulation installation type.	View	None
Insulation Application	A description of the type of insulation and how it is applied.	View	None
Input Resource Type	Resource or fuel consumed by the system. See Resource type for complete list of resources.	View	None
Illuminance	The area density of the luminous flux incident at a point on a surface. Measured in units of either lumens per square meter (lux) or lumens per square foot (footcandle).		fc
Height	The dimension of an object from the bottom to the top. This can be used to define the height of any building component, such as the height of a wall or window.		ft
Exposure	Exposure of a material or surface. See the Location term for a complete list of options for this term.	View	None
Ev	Illuminance (vertical)		fc
Equivalent Melanopic Lux	EML - The WELL Building Standard uses Equivalent Melanopic Lux (EML) as a metric for measuring the biological effects of light on humans		None
Equipment Rating	Formalized rating system for a given type of equipment.	View	None
Energy Software Tool Version	The release version of the software tool used to calculate energy performance of a building.		None
Energy Software Tool	A software program that is used in some fashion to calculate the energy consumption of a building		None
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
Eh	Illuminance (horizontal)		fc
Efficiency Value	The numeric value associated with an Efficiency Qualifier, given in the associated Efficiency Metric		Unknown
Efficiency Qualifier	Variations in the quantification of the effectiveness with which equipment, a product, process, or system performs.	View	None
Efficiency Metric Qualifier	The measure used to quantify efficiency	View	None

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