This versions brings a whole new kind of feature in the API - PDF reports - and continues a series of planned improvements to the structural models ahead of their next major update.
PDF Reports
As architects prepare their reporting for the AIA 2030 Commitment, we're providing a series of PDF reports to allow them to easily reconcile modeling scope in C.Scale with the DDx reporting requirements.
While the calculation endpoints remain stateless, the PDF endpoint requires the temporary storage of user data (for up to 30 days). These data are organized in an AWS S3 bucket using the
workspace_id
field added to the top-level of the schema. If a workspace_id
is not passed, the PDF is stored in a scratch
dir. To populate the project phase field of the PDF, we have also added a
project_phase
field to the API request. Calculate % EUI Reduction
Previously, the API could not accept the explicit declaration of a percent reduction to energy use intensity. Instead, users had to query the API, return the result, calculate the reduction and query it again with the new value - eesh. Now, the API does all that for you :] and you can declare the reduction as a percentage against the quantity declared in
energy_use. benchmark_eui
- yee!Structure Model Updates
In this version, we continue to deploy incremental improvements to our structural estimation models. These changes create a diff in the structural results. In this update, the emissions for Reinforced Concrete structures are lower in some cases, and the emissions from some Mass Timber buildings are higher. Across the 1,600ish buildings in our regression set, we saw the following changes to the structural emissions:
- 25pct: -12.0%
- Mean: -8.5%
- Median: -8.6%
- 75pct: -4.9%
With the minor increases in some mass timber structures and the largest reductions in reinforced concrete structures.