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Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program: Summary FY 1992 Research Activities
1993
This report summarizes research results from tasks conducted from March 1992 to February 1993, the fourth year 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 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 "Integration of Computerized Energy Analyses with Existing and Planned CAD Software Used by the Industry" section describes two 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, ASG. ASG's software package "Architecture" runs on top of AutoCAD. Architecture and AutoCAD 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 Fall 1993. The other project in this section is the Sales to Marketing Tool. Because home buyers have the largest stake in the energy performance of a home, we believe that a computerized sales tool that allows buyers to design their own homes while considering energy has the potential to improve the energy performance of homes and increase sales. If this information is transferred electronically to engineering and manufacturing, the efficiency of the entire housing process will
Energy Efficient Industrialized Housing Research Program: Summary FY 1993 Research Activities
1994
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
2010
This final report summarizes the work conducted by the Consortium of Advanced Residential Buildings (CARB) (http://www.carb-swa.com/), one of the "Building America Energy Efficient Housing Partnership" Industry Teams, for the period January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010. The Building America Program (BAP) is part of the Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Program (BTP). The long term goal of the BAP is to develop cost effective, production ready systems in five major climate zones that will result in zero energy homes (ZEH) that produce as much energy as they use on an annual basis by 2020. CARB is led by Steven Winter Associates, Inc. with Davis Energy Group, Inc. (DEG), MaGrann Associates, and Johnson Research, LLC as team members. In partnership with our numerous builders and industry partners, work was performed in three primary areas-advanced systems research, prototype home development, and technical support for communities of high performance homes.-SBER Overlook at Clipper Mill (mixed, humid climate)-William Ryan Homes-Tampa (hot, humid climate)
Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings in Knoxville, TN, U.S
2013
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TESTING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENCY: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY AS A LIVING LAB
Retrofitting Solutions and Services for the enhancement of Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings (RESSEEPE) is an EU funded project which aims to bring together design and decision making tools, innovative building fabric manufacturers and a programme to demonstrate the improved building performance achievable through the retrofit of existing buildings at a district level. The RESSEEPE framework is being validated by a strong demonstration programme, envisaging the renovation of 102,000 square metres of public buildings. The core idea of the project is to technologically advance, adapt, demonstrate and assess a number of innovative retrofit technologies implemented on several pilot cases with different climate conditions across Europe (Coventry-UK, Barcelona-Spain and Skellefteå-Sweden) to ensure a high potential replication of the retrofit solutions. The three demonstration sites are involved as the main promoters of a very ambitious district level renovation, demonstrating a systemic approach to technology installation and evaluation, taking into account the benefits of a set of technologies, which properly combined in terms of cost effectiveness and energy performance could achieve reductions around 50% in terms of energy consumption. Coventry University is acting as a Living Lab in order to test some advanced technologies already in the market and others developed specifically within the RESSEEPE project. Those innovative technologies implemented in the pilot case are: Vacuum Insulated Panels, PCM tubes, Ventilated façade with Photovoltaic Panels, Electrochromic windows and Aerogel Mortar. The main feature of this installation is that it acts as a testing bed for where to install different advanced technologies covering specific areas of the building, rather than refurbishing it as a whole. This paper documents the testing of prototype technologies in a pilot case in Coventry University, analysing the process of selection of the different technologies and showing all the challenges faced during installation and coordination of installation activities. The installation 1 This research was supported by the RESSEEPE project, which has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme, Project ID: 609377 The article reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. The information in this document is provided as is and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. The user thereof uses the information at its sole risk and liability. 257 The International Journal ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES ISSN 2345-0282 (online) http://jssidoi.org/jesi/ 2017 Volume 4 Number 3 (March) process is shown and discussed, highlighting the difficulties, setbacks and challenges faced during the low carbon refurbishment. The key issues are related to technical and health and safety risks. Also, to financial, coordination, planning and legislation barriers etc. It will also show ways forward and solutions adopted. The study also analyses the process of monitoring the energy performance of the spaces retrofitted and the data obtained through the monitoring of the building before and after the installation of the different technologies. The idea behind the Living Lab pilot case is to monitor the performance of those installations in isolation in order to obtain results which allow us to make conclusions about the replicability of the technologies selected in other locations. Ultimately, what is discussed is the overall process followed. This discussion seeks to show the lessons learnt throughout the process and to obtain conclusions from the barriers and engagement issues faced during the installation when retrofitting a public building.