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color=#0000ff size=2>Google SketchUp. It's free, easy to use, and has a
reasonably good sun/shadow rendering that allows you to see the effects as you
change the date and time. You can get fancier with something like Ecotect and
its sun path diagrams, but for a task like this I'd just go with
SketchUp.</FONT></SPAN>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Omer Moltay [mailto:omoltay@mimtarch.com]
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<B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:35 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B>
bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [Bldg-sim] Solar Shade
Simulation<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear List Members,</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would appreciate suggestions on the following
project:</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are working on a multi-block residential housing
in a topography will hills and valleys (max inclination around 10 degrees). We
would like to place the buildings in this topography so that even the first
floors receive sunlight for at least a few hours on 21 December. We are looking
for software to help us with locating and orientating the buildings so that
individual buildings do not block each other from receiving irradiation in this
manner.</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards.</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Omer Moltay, LEED AP</FONT>
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