## 1.4 Organization

This document is organized in five chapters and several appendices, as follows:

Chapter | Description
1. Overview | The purpose, organization, and content of the manual.
2. General Modeling Procedures | An overview of the modeling process, outlining the modeling rules and assumptions that are implemented in the same way for both the standard design and the proposed design, and procedures for determining system types and equipment sizes.
3. Software Requirements | Requirements for the simulation engines and software shells used to make calculations, and special reporting requirements for non-standard building features.
4. Content and Format of Standard Reports | The content and organization of the standard reports produced by qualifying software.
5. Building Descriptors Reference | The acceptable range of inputs for the proposed design and a specification for the standard design.

In addition, there are several appendices that contain reference material supporting definition of the proposed design and standard design. The numbering for these appendices generally aligns with the section numbers in the main manual that reference the appendices.