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BY
St. Lucie Counh,
u.d.lm
2010 FLORIDA BUILDING CODE —
DEFINITIONS
SITL-RECOVERED ENERGY. Waste energy recovered at
capacity relative to the floor area is greater than or
the building site that is used to offset consumption of purchased
equal to 5 Btu/h.fi2.
fuel or electrical energy supplies.
c. Indirectly conditioned space: an enclosed space
SITE -SOLAR ENERGY. Thermal, chemical, or electrical
within a building that is not a heated space or a cooled E
energy derived from direct conversion or incident solar radia-
space, which is heated or cooled indirectly by being
lion at the building site and used to offset consumption of put-
connected to adjacent space(s) provided (a) the prod -
chased fuel or electrical energy supplies. For the purposes of
uct of the U-factor(s) and surfatce.area(s) of the space
applying this standard, silFsolar energy shall not include pas-
adjacent to connected space(s) exceeds the combined •.
sive heal gain through fenestration systems.
sum of the product of the V-factor(s) and surface .;
SKYLIGHT. Glass orother transparentor translucent glazing
area(s) of the space adjoining the outdoors, uncondi-
tioned spaces, and to or from semiheated spaces (e.g.,
material installed at a slope of IS degrees (0.26 rad) or more
corridors) or (b) that air from heated or cooled spaces E
from vertical. Glazing material in skylights, including unit sky-
is intentionally transferred (naturally or mechani-
lights, solariums, sunrooms, roofs and sloped walls is included
cally) into the space at a rate exceeding 3 air changes
in this definition.
per hour (ACH) (e.g., atria).
SLAB -ON -GRADE FLOOR. That portion of a slab floor of
d. Unvented attic assembly: as defined in Section •.
the building envelope that is incontactwitbthe -round and that
R806.4 of the Florida Building Code, Residential.
is either above grade or is less than or equal to 24 inches below
These spaces shall not require supply or return out.
the final elevation of the nearest exterior erade.
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