Sustainable detail design center
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We're using this page to manage and share the sustainable design that will be going on at the green garage in April 2010. Member of the gg community will be gathering to design the details of the following areas.
Contents
Sustainability Goals
- Materials
- reuse
- natural / non-toxic
- no waste
- Durability
- 100 yrs
- easy to change
- Water
- minimize water used
- reuse our harvested/grey water
- Net Zero Energy
- reduce/eliminate energy needs (passive first)
- meet remaining needs with renewable / zero carbon generation
- natural lighting
- natural ventilation
- Community
- it works
- it's simple
- accessible to all
- connects people to each other and the earth
- Economic
- affordable
- repeatable
Water Tanks
Awnings
Public Area
Restroom and Kitchen
Historic Building
Annex Building
Office Space
- Main Conference Room (109)
- 4 Person Conference Room (111)
- 2 Person Quiet Room (110)
- Quiet Room #1 (113)
- Quiet Room #2 (114)
- Rear Mezzanine
Greenhouse
PV System
HVAC 2.0
Reference
- Overall HVAC Design Requirements
- Building plans current building plans
Geo-Solar Hybrid Heating and Cooling
- System Level View - Heating and Cooling
- Detail Designs current editions
- Solar Hot Water Collectors
- Geothermal Heating and Cooling including Earth Room
- Thermal Mass Storage Tanks
- Radiant Floor including Radiant Floor Zoning...additional details can be found here Radiant Floor Design
- Solar Domestic Hot Water and selection inDomestic Hot Water
- Sequence of Operations
Geo-Solar Hybrid Ventilation
- System Level - Hybrid Ventilation
- Detail Designs
- Sequence of Operations
Sustainable Controls Design
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- Strategy for Sustainable Controls at the Green Garage can be found in this pdf File:Strategy for Sustainable Controls.pdf. The key requirements are:
- proactive vs. reactive
- using the earth's natural energy first
- promote learning and improvement throughout the system
- Sustainable Controls Design
Building Recommendations (Vince)
- Computer Model
- Entire building
- Allows you to evaluate any change / idea
- Basis on all incentive programs
- Walls
- WUFI (catches vapor/condensation build up)
- Entire building
- Strategy
- Passive
- reduce your demand...then meet the low demand
- Work with the natural system
- Prioritize...heat, cooling, lighting, hot water = 90% of energy
- Insulate the envelope ... Building Science - Perfect Wall
- Roof = 60R
- Floor = 25R
- Walls = 30R
- Eliminate Thermal Bridges (focus on walls)
- All connect points
- Walls-to-Roof
- Walls-to-Floor
- Walls-to-walls
- Window and door framing
- Wall framing
- All connect points
- Air Infiltration (focus on walls, windows and doors)
- < 1 Air Exchange per hour
- ALL building seams
- Windows and Doors seals and framing
- Walls-to-Roof
- Walls-to-Floor
- Windows and Doors seals and framing
- Windows
- Window-to-wall ratio not > 27%
- SHGC = .3 or below
- Windows U = .27 or below
- Eliminate Doorwalls
- Insulate the envelope ... Building Science - Perfect Wall
- Passive
- Materials
- spray foam for all cracks
- cfl bulbs inside and induction outside
- aircrete for walls
- mix insulation
- Incentives
- IRS
- DTE Yes
- Fixed utilities
Materials
Building Materials
- Paint
- Wallboard (see existing page New to GG site wall materials)
- Tiles
Wood Flooring
Material Reuse
Operations Materials
Lighting
- Flow in the dark Exit Signs No power
