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Environmental aspect 3: Water Consumption
As to water consumptions, addressed by all mentioned PW credits, the simulation process of the
proposed community reported the award of 3 credit points of Estidama. This is due to pre-specifying the irrigation needs of all planted trees to native and adaptive irrigation measures which is
equivalent to IBL < 2 liters/m2/day as a set target.

Figure 9: 40% reduction in water yearly consumption
Environmental Aspect 4: Energy
Finally, running the second simulation procedure throughout a renewable energy source within
the production of the proposed community’s energy system was implemented. Results revealed
that the energy consumption of an electricity source was reduced by a percentage of 19.6 which
does not achieve the highest ceiling of 25% set by Estidama (RE-4.1) but rewards the proposed
community with a good score of 6 points for this credit.

Figure 10: 19% reduction in daily energy consumption

Other passive strategies regarding RE-R3 did not participate in the above mentioned energy consumption reduction rate. This is mainly due to the extent of amendments this study is targeting
towards the proposed community layout. The focus of this study is to apply changes upon the
original case study within a proper logical framework and specified limits, as to offer the ability
to utilize such measures within futuristic considerations rather than changing the fundamental

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