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LOTHES
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ACILITIES
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XCLUSIONS
Buildings other than residential buildings.
O
BJECTIVE
Encourage greater use of natural resources in place of gas or electrical
energy for clothes drying purposes.
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REDITS ATTAINABLE
1
P
REREQUISITES
None.
C
REDIT REQUIREMENT
1 credit for providing suitable clothes drying facilities which utilise the
natural environment for all residential units.
A
SSESSMENT
The Client shall demonstrate the adequacy of the clothes drying facilities
for efficient drying by sun and breeze, which is adequately protected
from water droplets and debris falling from higher levels, and not
adversely affected by smoke, fumes and pollutants emitted from water
heaters, cooking exhausts, discharges from air-conditioning units, etc.
In order to prove that the clothes drying facilities are satisfactory, the
client shall demonstrate the performance with the following requirements:
Each clothes drying space should have access to sunlight or wind,
this is determined as follows:
1 Hours of direct solar exposure in winter solstice (
冬 至 日
); or
Minimum wind velocity of 0.5m/s under the winter prevailing wind
condition (direction and velocity).
If re-entrant locations or alike are used, justification has to be
submitted to demonstrate suitability with respect to both the natural
environmental conditions, as defined previously, and the mitigation of
potential nuisances. The mitigation of potential nuisances requires
the location of clothes drying facilities to be:
0.5m horizontal distance away from air-conditioning units; and
1.5m horizontal distance away from kitchen exhausts (and
operable windows).
B
ACKGROUND
Provisions of clothes drying facilities in many existing residential
buildings are inadequate, so that people tend not to use them and resort
to gas or electric dryers, increasing energy consumption.