Building-energy simulation and monitoring research activities for Solar Decathlon houses

Waßmer, M.; Warner, C.

doi:10.1109/pvsc.2005.1488479

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“…Each prototype that participated in the competition was monitored uninterruptedly for 10 days [44,45], 2 sensors were placed in each of them from which temperature data were obtained, 1 sensor where data was collected exclusively on relative humidity, and 1 sensor that provided the levels of natural lighting inside the house. To evaluate the comfort conditions in each prototype, the judges installed several Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) in different rooms of each prototype (Figure 20).…”

Section: Environmental Behavior Of the Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Behavior Of the Prototypementioning

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Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

López-Escamilla¹

2020

Applied Sciences

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The AURA 1.0 prototype is a sustainable social housing proposal, designed by the University of Seville and built for the first Latin American edition of the prestigious Solar Decathlon competition. Different conditioning strategies were integrated into this prototype, optimized for a tropical climate, and focused on contributing positively to the health of the most humble people in society. In this moment, in which a large part of the world population is confined to their homes due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity (and the obligation) to reconsider the relationship between architecture and medicine or in other words, between the daily human habitat and health. For this reason, this analysis of aspects derived from the interior conditioning of the homes is carried out. The main objective of the Aura proposal is to be able to extract data through a housing monitoring system, which allows us to transfer some design strategies to the society to which is a case study, in order to promote environmental comfort and, therefore, people’s health. The AURA 1.0 prototype develops flexible and adaptable living spaces, with a high environmental quality, in order to maintain the variables of temperature, relative humidity and natural lighting within a range of comfort required by the rules of the event. To achieve this end, the prototype develops an architectural proposal that combines passive and active conditioning strategies, using construction qualities and typical costs of social housing. These strategies allowed the project to achieve the first prize in the Comfort Conditions test. So, this paper presents an appropriate and tested solution that can satisfy comfortability and health of residents who live in social housing while maintaining low energy consumption.

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Section: Environmental Behavior Of the Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental Behavior Of the Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

López-Escamilla¹

2020

Applied Sciences

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The 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon and the 2010 European Solar Decathlon—expanding the global reach of zero energy homes through collegiate competitions

Warner

Farrar-Nagy

Waßmer

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2009 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC)

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Collaborative Research and Education in the Design and Building of a Net-Zero Energy Solar Powered House – Testimony of a Solar Decathlon 2013 Entry

Cecchi¹,

Azarbayjani²,

Tempest³

2014 ASEE International Forum Proceedings

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This paper provides a testimony of the experience and the lessons learned during the design, construction and presentation of a net-zero energy house as part of the 2013 U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Solar Decathlon competition. The Solar Decathlon is a biennial competition which challenges international collegiate teams to design, build, and operate net-zero energy solarpowered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. Like the Olympic Decathlon, the Solar Decathlon consists of 10 contests: juried contests (engineering, architecture, market appeal, communications and affordability) and measured contests (comfort zone, hot water, appliances, home entertainment and energy balance). The purpose of the competition is both educative-educational experience for the participating students, for the general public, for the building industry and the policy makers-and research oriented-encouraging multidisciplinary collaboration towards development of new technologies and methods. The paper discusses the educational experience of the students participating in this international competition, focusing on the engineering undergraduate students. It describes the plan implemented for integrating the Solar Decathlon into the required curricula within the engineering, architecture, and business departments. A project as large and diverse as this one required accommodating curricular development at various levels and within various modes of teaching and learning. Students were encouraged to participate in the process in five ways: design studios, research labs and seminars, special topics, construction, and monitoring. Although the greatest learning experience for the students occurred in the integrated design process-across engineering disciplines, and school of architecture-the student team members also learned how to raise funds, procure materials and construction equipment, and how to interact with one another towards a mutual goal. The project provided an opportunity for the development and implementation of new educational materials focused on energy efficiency, sustainable building design, solar energy, and power conversion and conditioning technologies. Being part of a large and varied team seeing a project from the preliminary design phase to construction and commissioning, the students were provided with a true multidisciplinary hands-on opportunity. The opportunity proved to strengthen their technical skills, acquired in the regular curriculum, via integration of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. Moreover, the students were exposed to the perspective and educational styles of professors and students in each represented academic department (electrical and computer engineering, mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, architecture, marketing and communications). Organized in a multidisciplinary format, students were then able to share their strengths across disciplines and contribute to a synthesis of process and product.

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Building-energy simulation and monitoring research activities for Solar Decathlon houses

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Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

Environmental Comfort as a Sustainable Strategy for Housing Integration: The AURA 1.0 Prototype for Social Housing

The 2009 Department of Energy Solar Decathlon and the 2010 European Solar Decathlon—expanding the global reach of zero energy homes through collegiate competitions

Collaborative Research and Education in the Design and Building of a Net-Zero Energy Solar Powered House – Testimony of a Solar Decathlon 2013 Entry

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