Building Element

Supported Attributes:

Attribute Description
id The unused identification attribute.
buildingType This value is collected from the Building Type in the Energy Settings dialog.

Supported Children:

Element Description
Name The value will be "bldg-1" or collected from the Project Name parameter depending on analysis mode.
Area The building area, the total floor area is computed as the sum of areas for each Surface element of type InteriorFloor, UndergroundSlab, RaisedFloor, or SlabOnGrade. The building area is computed as the sum of the area for the spaces where the Number of People are greater than zero.
Space See Space Element.
AnalysisParameter Project parameters assigned to Project Information will be exported to gbXML as AnalysisParameter's.

Sample:

<BuildingbuildingType="MultiFamily"id="bldg-1">

<Name>bldg-1</Name>

<Area>577.1994384</Area>

+<Space/>

</Building>