Aggregate structure, construction & geometry branches

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A number of ongoing tasks are aiming to alter how BTAP sets, inter alia:

• a building's general (activity) type (e.g. office vs commercial)
• consequent structural attributes (e.g. steel vs concrete post/beam, vs wood-framed)
• conditioned vs indirectly-conditioned (e.g. plenums) vs unconditioned (e.g. attics)
• consequent skylight (and possibly skylight well) placement
• subsequent linear thermal bridging assignment
• follow-up embodied carbon take-offs

Some of the targeted branches include 1854 & 1882.

The initial plan was to merge individual branches with nrcan branch, one by one, in some preset sequence. As work progressed, that sequence couldn't necessarily be followed to the letter, as further iterations were needed. These branches are also highly interlinked - a change in one branch requiring synced changes in another. A merge with nrcan branch isn't foreseen very soon (in a month or so, yes - but not in the immediate future), which is making current harmonizing efforts a bit burdensome.

The task here is to simply create a single, intermediate branch to facilitate managing/harmonizing individual contributions (branches) before attempting a merge with nrcan branch. Continuously merging in other nrcan branch updates will continue for each of these branches individually, and for this intermediate branch, offering some flexibility to merge in some (or all) branches into nrcan branch at some point.