PDF reports
Automatically generated PDF reports via the Reports menu: climate report, construction report and usage-profile report with content and prerequisites
Overview
VICUS Buildings generates documentation-ready PDF reports in A4 format (15 mm page margins, embedded fonts) from the project data. All reports are accessed via the Reports menu, which is only visible in the Building workspace. After selecting the menu item, the target file name is first requested (file filter Report (*.pdf), the extension .pdf is added if needed); the generation runs with a progress dialog and can be canceled there. Climate-report-<ProjectName>, Construction-report-<ProjectName> or Usage-profile-report-<ProjectName> is suggested as the file name.
The report on summer thermal protection is not part of this menu — it is generated directly from the verification page, see DIN 4108-2 summer thermal protection.
Climate report
Reports > Climate report… evaluates the climate file assigned to the project (setting under Climate & Location). The prerequisite is a valid, readable climate file; otherwise the generation aborts with an error message.
Content:
- Title page and table of contents with project information
- Climate data information: location, country, altitude, geographic coordinates, time zone and data source (file name of the climate file)
- Annual statistics: tabular overview with annual values (mean, minimum, maximum value and annual sum) of the climate quantities; monthly statistics follow in the respective sections
- Temperature and humidity: annual course of the air temperature and relative humidity, monthly statistics and distribution diagrams
- Radiation: annual courses and monthly sums of the direct and diffuse solar radiation
- Wind: annual course of the wind speed and distribution of the wind directions (wind rose)
- Precipitation: annual course and monthly sums (invalid or missing values of the dataset are filtered out)
Good to know:
The climate report is suitable as an attachment to the simulation report: it documents, in a traceable way, which weather dataset was used for the calculation. Regenerate it after the final choice of location so that the report and simulation results describe the same dataset.
Construction report
Reports > Construction report… documents all constructions and window components actually used in the project. The basis is the component and window assignments of the model (component instances); identical constructions with identical boundary conditions are combined and their application areas summed. The data comes from the active database (constructions, materials, boundary conditions, glazing systems, windows).
Content:
- Title page with project information (project name, address, editor) and a preview image from the 3D scene
- Table of contents structured by component categories (e.g. exterior wall, interior wall, ceilings, flat roof, floor against ground, windows, doors)
- Result list: summary of all constructions with U-value and application area as well as check marks (green/red) for minimum thermal protection (M), reference values (Ref) and the moisture-protection check by the Glaser method (G)
- Construction sheets per construction: layer structure with material properties (thickness, bulk density, thermal conductivity, specific heat capacity), heat transfer coefficients or resistances, U-value and a layer graphic with an indication of the boundary-condition sides (inside, outside, ground, adiabatic); for windows, glazing properties (SHGC, also angle-dependent)
Since the preview image is generated via the 3D scene, the project must be loaded in the geometry view; the screen display is not altered in the process (rendering into a framebuffer).
Usage-profile report
Reports > Usage-profile report… documents the usage profiles (zone templates) used in the project with all sub-models and schedules — the data basis corresponds to the assignment under Assigning usage profiles.
Content per usage profile:
- Internal loads: persons, electrical equipment, lighting and other loads with schedule diagrams and annual overview
- Thermostat setpoints: heating and cooling setpoints with associated schedules
- Heating/cooling power limitation: maximum heating and cooling power of the ideal conditioning (or a notice if no limitation is set)
- Ventilation and infiltration: air change rates with schedules
- Shading control: irradiance limit values per orientation (north, east, south, west, horizontal) and dead band (or a notice if no control is present)
- Room list: all rooms to which the profile is assigned, tabulated by building and building level
Good to know:
The construction and usage-profile reports together represent the complete input documentation of a building simulation: building physics (assemblies, U-values, moisture protection) and usage boundary conditions (loads, setpoints, ventilation, shading). This lets you substantiate simulation assumptions to reviewers and project participants without a look into the model.