news from the BRE Group
published: 18/11/2010
This press release is over six months old and the details may have been superseded. Please contact the Press Office for the latest information.
LATEST SBEM RELEASE FOR 2010 BUILDING REGULATIONS
BRE has now released a new version of the SBEM calculation tool, with its interface, as iSBEM v4.1.a. It is available to download, free of charge, from http://www.2010ncm.bre.co.uk/.
This version fully implements all the changes needed to allow the tool to be used to show compliance with the 2010 edition of Part L of Building Regulations in England and Wales, and of Section 6 in Scotland.
Full details of the changes are provided on the website, but they include:
- The ability to generate an Approved Document Checklist without a ‘For illustration' watermark
- A new form on which assessors can record the specification of key features of a building, for submission to Building Control Bodies (as required by ADL2A)
- Improvements to the treatment of intermittency in heating and cooling demand, in line with changes to ISO standards. This has little effect on Building Regulations compliance, but does make the absolute energy use align more closely with results from dynamic simulation tools.
It is the intention to release very shortly a revised version of iSBEM v3.5, which will continue to be used for buildings being built to 2006 regulations and, until April 2011, for all EPCs.
Notes:
SBEM and iSBEM are developed and maintained by BRE on behalf of the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG).
SBEM is the Simplified Building Energy Model, used to demonstrate compliance, for buildings other than dwellings, with Building Regulations Part L in England and Wales, with Building Standards Section 6 in Scotland, and with Building Bye-laws for the States of Jersey.
Follow BRE Group online:
