VE-Navigator for UK Compliance: Overheating

Guidance and facilitation in undertaking overheating analyses for Approved Document O (England and Wales) and Section 3 (Scotland) compliance checks.

VE-Navigator for UK Compliance: Overheating

Guidance and facilitation in undertaking overheating analyses for Approved Document O (England and Wales) and Section 3 (Scotland) compliance checks

​Our patented VE-Navigator technology provides you with a robust and detailed step-by-step structured workflow for analysing overheating for Approved Document O (England 2021/Wales 2022) and Section 3 (Scotland 2022).

  • England / Wales and Scotland Overheating Compliance.
  • Approved Document O (England 2021)
  • Approved Document O (Wales 2022) 
  • Section 3 (Scotland 2022)
  • Revolutionary easy to use step-by-step guidance from model setup, to data assignment, to simulation.
  • Concise reporting with interactive filters for easy interrogation.
  • Unique built-in QA functionality – design team collaboration and tracking.
  • Improved modelling efficiency and accuracy.
  • Significant time saving leading to rapid iteration.

This innovative tool streamlines the process and ensures no step is missed. The navigators provide:

  • Step-by-step guidance and instruction across compliance rules and process
  • Confidence that each key stage has been addressed
  • Unique reports which capture overheating performance
  • Unique built in QA functionality
    • Design team collaboration: add and share notes
    • Track team progress: date/user stamp check box
    • Integrated guidance notes
  • Analysis Automation

For all overheating routes the Navigator analyses the results of the regulations calculation and provides guidance to help streamline the design process to reduce overheating to within acceptable limits. The overheating analysis applies to Dwellings and Residential Spaces. The Navigator includes:

  • Editable, premade data, for:
    • Thermal templates for CIBSE TM59 room types
    • Suggested thermal templates for room types rooms excluded from the analysis but needed for simulation e.g. cupboards, voids etc.
    • MacroFlo opening types specific to each England / Wales and Scotland 
  • Automated overheating analysis
  • Automated PDF overheating report