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Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo

Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo

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Calculating occupancy code values with Dynamo

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- [Instructor] I'm going to do a building code example this week. I'm going to do a really simple occupancy calculation by using Dynamo loosely based on International Building Code. I do recommend that you do your own calculations based on your own jurisdiction. This is just an example, but I wanted it to be as realistic as possible so I went out to this website here for the international building code and what I've done is taken this table here and these occupancy load factors and I pulled those into an Excel file here that we're going to work with. These names coming out of the Excel file are pulled from the Revit Advanced sample project that comes with the product. These are my best attempt to match up those values from the building code there in the background to those functions based on the room names. And then this is just the metric calculation based on these values because the Revit Advanced sample project is…

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