Landscapes and tree shading in Equest

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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.

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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.

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the other advantage of building shades is that they can have a shading
schedule - to allow for variations in vegetation density throughout the
year.

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