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In order to enable the spreadsheet to describe the hydraulic characteristics of the
action area, the following information is also required:
– the hydraulic load class, as defined in the Knowledge Framework of the Municipal
Structural Plan,
– the type of action (new building or restructuring).
Software user’s layout
With this information, the building lot is analysed as a geometrically simplified
one: in the actual state, just like in the planned state, the building volume is considered as a regular parallelepiped placed in the centre of an “equivalent” yard, in
which the distance between the walls of the building volume and the limit of the
property are constant on all four sides.
The inclination of the building volume makes it possible to acquire more information about the amount of solar radiation touching each wall (for this feature, see
the following in-depth analyses).
The last two pieces of information (hydraulic load class and type of action) make
it possible to define what principle to apply for managing the extents generated by
the building lot.
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