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An additional supplementary report is also produced but only for building regulations compliance
checks for England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Certifiers can input their own text within
special fields in this pdf report regarding any additional details on the project parameters. This
report can then be printed and included, along with the BRUKL compliance document, within the
submitted package to building control. At the moment, this report cannot be re-saved
electronically with the certifier’s input text unless they have some form of “pdf writer” software on
their computer. Therefore, we recommend that certifiers save their text in a separate document
(for e.g., in an MS WORD file) for future reference (to enable them to copy and paste rather than
having to re-type). It is hoped that a facility would be added in future versions of the software to
allow the certifier to input their text directly into iSBEM, and the text would appear on this report
once the calculation for compliance checking runs successfully.
8.2.3. Data Reflection Report – Actual Building
This report contains all the data that SBEM uses to calculate the energy performance of the
building, along with some general details about the building (as input by the user), and can be
attached to the building’s “Log Book”. The information is presented in the following order:
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General details
Building fabric details
All systems other than HVAC
HVAC system 1
Zone 1 in HVAC system 1
Envelope 1 of Zone 1
Window 1 in Envelope 1 of Zone 1
Door 1 in Envelope 1 of Zone 1
Etc. for all other zones in HVAC system 1
Etc.. for all other HVAC systems
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Compliance Check Summary details
The report contains hyperlinks (in blue) to aid in navigation around the report (which can quite
large depending on the project). See Figure 94 for a screen shot of one of the Data Reflection
reports and for examples of the hyperlinks.
The data in this report for the actual building is also produced in a more compact layout in pdf
format (Figure 95). This report is more printer-friendly than the html one, and it can be printed
either on A4 or A3 paper, for e.g., to be carried around by Building Control while surveying the
building.
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