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Hero has a variety of Default Floor Assemblies that can be used, and these are visible within the Construction column of the Floor Data-Grid. The current Assemblies include assemblies of types:

• Concrete Slab On-Ground: Various thicknesses

• Concrete Waffle-Pod Slabs: Various thicknesses.

• Suspended Timber Floors: One unlined & one lined with fibre-cement sheet below

• Suspended Concrete Floors: Of various thicknesses & lining

• Suspended AAC: AAC or Hebel-type Floor Assembly (75mm thickness)

Floor Data-Grid Construction Column

In addition to the Construction or Assembly of the Floor, the Floor Data-Grid also contains a Type column that is used for reference & information but that if changed may change both the Assembly and Adjacency Type to the relevant defaults for that Type as required. See above Assembly row for details.

Floor Data-Grid Type Column

The Insulation (if any) can added to a Floor via the Insulation column of the Floor Data-grid. There are variety of Floor Insulation Options available depending on the Floor Construction, including:

Slab on Ground Assemblies: Several common R-value underslab insulation products.

Waffle Pod Assemblies: Various thickness of EPS-foam waffle-pod void formers that lie below the slab. The R-values are the thermally bridged R-values that account for the concrete ribs or beams across the floor. There is also a uninsulated option in the list for non-foam based waffle-pods such as plastic void formers etc.

Suspended Floors: A variety of Insulation options that represent common insulation systems including:

• No insulation: This would be used if the Floor was exposed directly below it such as a Timber Floorboard where the Floorboards are directly exposed & visible from underneath; or for a Suspended Concrete slab floor where the slab is exposed to the air directly underneath.

• Non-reflective Air-gap: This would be appropriate for most common Internal Floors where between the Floor Covering and Ceiling below there is an empty air-gap (if uninsulated).

• Batt Insulation Materials

• Reflective Air-gaps combined with Bulk Insulation Materials: Appropriate to use to simulate reflective membrane insulation products such as Kingspan’s Permifloor, or reflective rigid EPS insulation products such as Foilboard, etc of various thicknesses & reflectivity.

Floor Data-Grid Insulation Column

Concrete Slab on Ground & Waffle-pod Floors can have Slab Edge Insulation added to them via the Slab Edge Insulation column in the Floor data-grid. There are a fixed variety of typical R-value products that can be selected for the Floor.

Floor Data-Grid Slab Edge Insulation Column

Floor Coverings are used to model the effects of various materials on top of the Floor Assembly within a Simulation.

The Floor Coverings have slightly different Materials depending on whether they are applied to a Suspended Timber Floor or not.

See the Floor Covering Table below for further details.    

Floor Data-Grid Covering Column

The Gross Area of the Floor in Square Metres (i.e. does not include Holes/Stairwell area)

Not Editable within Data-Grid

Floors with a Sub-Floor Adjacency can toggle the Ventilation rate of that Sub-Floor Zone through the Ventilation column in the Floor Data-grid. This is described in further detail in the Sub-floor Zone section.

Floor Data-Grid Subfloor Ventilation Column

The Floor is directly adjacent to Ground such as for a Concrete Slab or Waffle-pod Assembly. If the Adjacency type is changed then the Assembly will be automatically changed away from a Ground type Assembly.

Floor Data-Grid Adjacency Column

Floor is adjacent to a Sub-Floor Zone.

When a Floor has a Subfloor Adjacency, Hero will automatically create a Subfloor Zone underneath the Floor, or if a Subfloor Zone already exists on that Level, will expand the Subfloor Zone to encompass the area below the newly changed Floor.

Subfloor Zones are detailed further in the Zone section of this tutorial and have many special properties.

Floor Data-Grid Adjacency Column

If the Floor is sufficiently elevated such that the area below it does not form a enclosed or semi-enclosed Sub-Floor Zone, then the External Adjacency Type should be used. This represents a Floor that is simply adjacent to the External environment temperature (i.e. outside air).

Floor Data-Grid Adjacency Column

Floor adjacent to a Ceiling from the same Dwelling

Cannot be changed in the Data-Grid

Floors adjacent to a Ceiling from a different Dwelling.

Cannot be changed in the Data-Grid

Floors adjacent to a Conditioned Space that is not part of the Hero model (i.e. Adjacent Buildings, Commercial Spaces etc).

Floor Data-Grid Adjacency Column

Floors adjacent to an actual Carpark Zone that is part of the Common Area Dwelling

Cannot be changed in the Data-Grid

Floors adjacent to an actual Corridor Zone that is part of the Common Area Dwelling

Cannot be changed in the Data-Grid