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• Code implementation and improvements in its application
  • Loads on structures. Wind loads
    • NTDV 1997 (El Salvador)
• CYPECAD
  • Export to IFC. Definition of column ends
• CYPECAD MEP
  • CYPECAD MEP for Spain
    • Thermal analysis – CTE HE 1
• CYPETERM HE (Spain)
  
  
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Code implementation and improvements in its application

Loads on structures. Wind loads

NTDV 1997 (El Salvador)

Norma Técnica para Diseño por Viento (El Salvador, 1997).

Implemented in CYPECAD.

CYPECAD

Export to IFC. Definition of column ends

The 2014.j version includes two options to define the end of each column span in a different manner when exporting the CYPECAD job to IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) format:

• The end of the column is situated at the bottom surface of the floor slab or beam of the floor above.
  
  
• The end of the column is situated at the top surface of the floor slab or beam of the floor above.

CYPECAD MEP

CYPECAD MEP for Spain

Thermal analysis – CTE HE 1

The analysis and code justification of the new CTE HE 1 for new building projects or extensions of existing buildings for private residential use were implemented in the 2014.i version of CYPECAD MEP, within the “Thermal study tab”.

The 2014.j version incorporates the following application improvements of the new CTE HE 1 related to buildings of the aforementioned use:

• Check of the decompensation limits in buildings for private residential use
• Warnings when the energy demands are not met
• Heat recovery ventilators
  
  

More information can be found on our Spanish webpage .

CYPETERM HE (Spain)

CYPETERM HE, which can be accessed from the main CYPE software menu (installation in Spanish or in Catalan), was implemented in the 2014.i version.

CYPETERM HE has been created to help project designers comply with the “exigencia básica HE 1 de Limitación de la demanda energética”, which has recently been renewed in Order FOM/1635/2013 of the 10th September, updating the DB-HE “Ahorro de Energía”, of the Spanish Technical Building Code, which was approved by Royal Decree 314/2006, of the 17th March.

The 2014.j version incorporates the following improvements in CYPETERM HE:

• Error management
• Definition of the adjustment factor, bve
• Definition of the type of intersection for linear thermal bridges
• Justification report for the compliance of the “exigencia básica de limitación de demanda energética”

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