Global Terms

Term	Term Definition	Options	Unit of Measure
Age	Age of premises or equipment in years.	View	years
Area	The space inside the boundary of a 2 dimensional shape. This can be used with many other terms, including Location, Conditioning Status, Opaque Surface, to characterize the area of particular components.	View	ft2
Aspect Ratio	The ratio of width to length, of a premises	View	None
Azimuth	Degrees clockwise from North. For a premises, it is the azimuth of the front facing element. It can also be applied to envelope components, such as walls, windows (fenestration), as well as on-site generation technologies, such as photovoltaic panels. Legal Values: 0 - 360	View	deg
Boolean	Generic term to add boolean constrained list options to any term	View	None
Building Energy Code Or Standard	The name of an energy efficiency code or standard that is applied to building construction requirements.	View	None
Building Energy Code Or Standard Version	The version number, such as "90.1" for ASHRAE Standard.	View	None
Building Energy Code Year	Year for the Energy Code or Standard used with the Energy Code term. As the energy codes and standards are updated, dates are assigned for version control. There can be significant changes between different year versions, so it is important to capture the year of the standard as it applies to the building in question.	View	YYYY
Capacity	The capacity value of the associated equipment or system	View	Unknown
Capacity Qualifier	The capacity refers to the energy or physical load amount that equipment can handle.	View	None
Cardinal Orientation	Orientation of a surface or premises in terms of the attributes of North, South, East and West. Can be applied to the orientation of the front of the building, of a specific surface (wall, roof), window or skylight, or on-site generation technology, such as photovoltaic panels. A diagram for the constrained list choices will be provided when the web site is developed.	View	None
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.	View	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.	View	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	View	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.	View	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	View	ft
Description	A longer text description.	View	None
Diameter	Diameter of an object	View	ft

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