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Thermal bridging
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Description
Problem: EnergyPlus provides no method to describe thermal bridges in envelope components.
Solution 1: A very basic approximation would be to allow independent parallel path calculations for the same construction (e.g., wood stud and insulation cavity).
Solution 2: Develop adjustments to the conduction calculations for linear and point thermal bridges, similar to Psi factors.
Migrated from UserVoice feedback from @nealkruis
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the envelope-component and conduction-calculation code, then compare the two proposed approaches—parallel paths versus linear and point thermal-bridge adjustments—and define which scope and validation cases would constitute a completed feature.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100