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I have entered a building with an unconditioned basement. Why do the frame floors and the foundation wall components have loads in the Component Load Summary of “0”?

April 26, 2017basement building components floors foundation frame unconditioned wall

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I have entered a building with an unconditioned basement. Why do the frame floors and the foundation wall components have loads in the Component Load Summary of “0”?

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These losses are actually attributed to the crawl space/unheated basement. The losses are dependent on the floor construction and the wall construction of the basement. Reporting the losses as either floor losses or wall losses would be misleading.