Wrap SurfaceProperty:SurroundingSurfaces for Modeling Thermal Interactions between Buildings in an Urban Context

[DavidGoldwasser]

Enhancement Request

Wrap feature from this pull request merged into EnergyPlus 8.8 so it can be used through an OpenStudio measure.
https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/pull/6227/files

Detailed Description

See this paper for detail of functionality
https://escholarship.org/content/qt5261v2kp/qt5261v2kp_noSplash_797b20ea4b4a8652bf208ffabc719425.pdf?t=qaomhp

Possible Implementation

One or more objects need to be added, I'll see if I can identify those objects.

[DavidGoldwasser]

Link to markdown design doc
https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/blob/96be0affe1704093bbf766f5e051c88819a7bfe1/design/FY2017/NFP-Improving%20Building%20Energy%20Simulation%20in%20an%20Urban%20Context.md

(1) External Shading Fraction Schedule for external shading calculation

• Modify existing ShadowCalculation objet

(2) Surrounding surface properties for long-wave radiation calculation between buildings

• A new EnergyPlus object SurfaceProperty:SurroundingSurfaces

(3) Local Outdoor Air Node for co-simulation with urban micro-climate

• Modify existing OutdoorAir:Node

Looking through this, I am primarily interested in item 2 related to SurfaceProperty:SurroundingSurfaces, although the other objects also seem useful, but wouldn't have to be added to OpenStudio at same time as item 2

Here is link to documentation for that object
https://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/9-6/input-output-reference/group-advanced-surface-concepts.html#surfacePropertysurroundingSurfaces

[jmarrec]

Need the SurfaceProperty:LocalEnvironment as well. I'm almost done implementing this, I need to write FT tests and an OpenStudio-resources regression test (and determine whether I want to do a ReverseTranslator as well or not. I think the other SurfaceProperty objects aren't RT'ed, except the FoundationPerimeter ones)