Building program with mix operation and functionality

Hi there:)

I am trying to assign programs to different zones in my building. I am using two components HB Building program and HB Search Program.

Regarding the characteristics of my building, 4 stories and the large surface and many rooms it has, I chose LargeOffice program.

I noticed I have difficulties in finding suitable programs for some for example Kitchen.

In another program like PrimarySchool, there is Kitchen feature.

Can I use the kitchen from PrimarySchool for my simulation that is mostly used by LargeOffice?

Or more generally can I use mix programs from HB Building Programs MedTech labs, etc. if a building is multi-purpose multi-operation?

Many thanks in advance:)

Sincerely yours,
Behnam

Hi @behnammmohseni ,

It really depends on how different the two programs are from one another. I would generally not recommend doing this:

A Primary School Kitchen is just very different from what you might find in an Office. For one, an Office doesn’t usually close every summer like a primary school does.

This one is a definite maybe:

Swapping out some of the general purpose Laboratory programs with the Laboratory programs that come with a Hospital, for example, is less of major change. But laboratories in general tend to be very different from one another and they all have different requirements depending on what chemicals are being used, how many fume hoods there are, etc. So I would take the generalized “Lab” programs that come with Honeybee with a grain of salt and, if you have information about the particular type of lab that you are trying to model, I would override some of these generalized assumptions.

Hi @chris

The current building I am simulating has dry labs only. (For the other buildings are so mix; some of them have large Cafe, wet labs, etc.)

I would appreciate it if you could kindly let me know how I can simulate the kitchens I have in the current building I am working on (dry lab and full of computers, servers, sensors, etc.).

Many thanks in advance:)

Sincerely,
Behnam