Hello and welcome to the Building Information video.
To open the Building Information Module, select
the building information button from the left side of the screen.
As I am doing now,
the building Information module is composed of three sub
forms, as you can see on the left side of the screen.
This portion of the BAT is substantially pre-populated
with information from other agency databases and past audits.
Most of the data entry is straightforward,
but the user should consider the following when completing these forms.
To get to any of the forms, simply click the button
Real Property
Building Unit.
In situations where a building a group of buildings
have the same general designation, an additional identifier
such as B can be added for clarity.
The agency
designated covered facility ID is only required
if the facility is designated as a covered facility.
See field further up in the form
general info.
There are several required fields, including critical inputs
about the building structure, such as the number of floors above and below ground.
This data is particularly important
as this information is used by the BAT to auto generate
other information used during the audit assessment in later sections.
Note that there is an opportunity later
to customize the name of each floor for convenient reference.
See Layout Menu.
The date of construction is required.
If this date is unknown, the user should make a best guess
and then indicate in the note that the precise date was not known.
Renovation note is available
for the user to provide some information regarding major renovations.
Most buildings are continually being upgraded or serviced.
This field is intended to provide information about major changes
to building size. Example: new wing, new floor.
Major renovations to mechanical or electrical systems
can be recorded in the input forms for those subsystems.
GROSS square footage should be pre-populated,
if not the note field can be used
for this information during pre flighting or during the site visit.
Occupancy and schedule
the occupancy and schedule form is intended to allow the auditor
to input information regarding building use schedules
that are applicable for the audit,
like for energy usage types that are heavily
influenced by occupancy such as space conditioning.
There is no limit to the number of schedules that can be entered
and the auditor should create schedule entries
that are relevant to the current audit objectives.
After
entering the first schedule, the add new button can be used
to save the initial input and start the next schedule.
A detailed table is provided at the bottom of the page
so that the auditor can easily keep track of schedules entered.
Note that schedules from past audits are also available for use
and there is no need to enter a new schedule
if one of the existing schedules can be used.
Valid operating hours can be entered in a 24 hour format, are
from 00:00 midnight to 23:59 or
11:59 p.m..