Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program: Summary FY 1993 Research Activities (original) (raw)

This report summarizes research results from tasks conducted from March 1993 to February 1994 as part of the Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program. Detailed descriptions of tasks, methods, and results are available in the reports listed in section 13 of this document. The "Future Housing Materials, Systems and Manufacturing and Design Process Development" section describes a vision of future industrialized housing and the systems and processes required to realize it. This vision is quantified in two sets of performance specifications. One is for a single-family wood composite frame and thin insulation panel house for a cool climate; the other is for a multifamily lightweight concrete panel house for a hot, arid climate. These specifications have been used to work with industry to establish a series of short and medium-term research goals that are valuable to industry now, but also lead toward future high-performance economical industrialized housing. The project will be summarized and distributed to a broad audience. The "Integration of Computerized Energy Analyses with Existing and Planned CAD Software Used by the Industry" section describes three projects. The first project is the development of an energy module for a CAD system. The project is a joint effort of the University of Oregon, Pacific Northwest Laboratories and a software vendor, Softdesk/ASG. Softdesk's software package Auto-Architect runs on top of Auto CAD. Auto-Architect and Auto CAD are popular and dominate their markets. The advantage of combining an energy module with a CAD system is that the energy module can get a geometric description of the building directly from the CAD software, and the user doesn't have to re-enter the data. We expect this product to be on the market in October 1994. The second project, SIP Scheming, is energy analysis and cost estimating software for the Macintosh computer specifically designed for stressed skin insulating core panel producers. SIP Scheming can be used by someone with relatively little technical knowledge. Drawings are input either by scanning or importing from a CAD program. They can also be drawn directly using a basic

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