EL-2 Electrical Installations in Buildings

To fully document that an electrical installation fulfills the needs and requirements in a building, it is necessary to perform various calculations. For the same reason there are a number of schemas that are necessary to be able to produce. The Electrical Domain will be extended to provide the necessary information to applications that are specialized in producing such documentation.

The path and physical dimension of cables is important both for calculations, space requirements and for interoperability issues (temperatures in rooms along the path, heating and ?noise? from other cables).

The project will also focus on the needs from the industry that produces components that are a part of an electrical installation. This both for cost estimate, exact performance calculations, maintenance issues etc.
Mechanisms to combine what information that will naturally be a part of the IFC model and what is more suitable to access through external data references will be documented as a part of the implementation guide.

• The path and physical dimension of cables/conductors.
• Cable routers (cable ladders)
• Expand the model with necessary information to conduct typically "selectivity calculations".
• Expand the model with necessary information for "one-line diagrams"
• Define mounting types and encapsulation (brackets, colors of lids etc.)

• Detailed definition of "bus-systems".
• Electrical appliances like coffee machines, phones printers etc
• Further detailing of what is typical categorized as "electrical automation" (control signals, multi-line diagrams, PLC's etc.) beyond deliverables mentioned as in scope.