Does anyone know how to incorporate the shading from trees in your Equest
energy model? I have pretty dense trees shading west windows and I want to
be more accurate than simply substituting 'fins' or 'louvres'. Is it
possible to include these trees that will shade the windows? Thanks
everybody.
You can include them as fixed shades or building shades. (see project
tab) The advantage is they will shade more than 1 window whereas a
window shade will only shade that window regardless of how long it is.
the other advantage of building shades is that they can have a shading
schedule - to allow for variations in vegetation density throughout the
year.