Perrette

Building science

How a building actually works.

Reference documents, written from the plant room up. Each one describes the physical thing first, the job it does second, and only then how it is represented in a model — because a modeller who has never stood next to the machine sets the wrong numbers with great confidence. These are living documents; they grow as the tools do.

Energy

Mechanical systems

From the real building to the OpenStudio model: the five stages every HVAC system is made of, the component catalogue, the system fiches, the plant loops, and the controls that decide most of the energy.

Energy

Envelope & loads

Where the heat actually comes from and goes: constructions, glazing, infiltration, internal gains, and the schedules that drive them.

In preparation
Embodied carbon

Materials & carbon

What a building costs before it is switched on.

Planned
Fire & smoke

Fire dynamics

Smoke movement, tenability, and what an egress result depends on.

Planned