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07_ SITE: Context + Climate

Street Congestion Paved Bike Path Public Transit CSU Fort Collins Campus Residential Commercial

Fort Collins is located in a temperate climate, with hot summers and cold winters. Based on passive design strategies, the project should utilize thermal mass + night vent, capture internal heat gain, and use passive solar heating to increase the amount of hours in a year spent in the comfort zone to 57%. Using climate information, it is apparent the design team considered surface to volume ratios with the square form to ensure minimal heat was lost through the envelope.

SITE: Regional Resources

75% of Customers within the Fort Collins City limits are under the Utilities department of the Fort Collins Government. Water for the Fort Collins area is sourced from two locations:

• The Colorado- Big Thompson project, which diverts water from the upper Colorado River and stores it in Lake Granby for later delivery to Carter Lake and

Horsetooth Reservoir. This is managed by Northern

Water. • The Cache la Poudre River basin, including the

Michigan Ditch and Joe Wright Reservoir System.

Wastewater is carried through underground pipes to one of the Water Reclamation Facilities in the area. A velocity of approximately two feet per second was accounted for when designing thew system to prevent the organics from settling in the system.

Water treatment systems are in place to treat wastewater through chemical and biological processes and are done at the Drake Water Reclamation Facility and the Mulberry Water Reclamation Facility. Once the water has been treated, it is discharged to the Cache la Poudre River and Fossil Creek Reservoir.

According to the Platte River Power Authority, the cities of Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont, and Loveland are delivered their power through the production of:

• coal (55%) • hydropower (19%) • wind (17%) • purchases/other (5%) • solar and natural gas (4%).