RESOURCE AVAILABILITY

This site is located within a Mediterranean climate, meaning it has low temperatures and high humidity. This is due to its distance to the ocean and the marine layer. Due to these site conditions , the site with no active systems and four passive design strategies effectively implemented in an envelope dominant people will equate to 92.2% of the comfort hours. One passive design strategy being internal heat gain, contributing 59.6% to the comfort hours. Another is passive solar direct gain high mass with 21.1% and sun shading of windows which contributes 17.8% to the comfort hours. Sun shading of windows also contributes 17.8% to the overall comfort hours. Majority of wind direction is from the northwestern side. As this is an urban site, the average wind speeds of about 15 miles per hour will be more prevalent at the higher elevations.