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Passive House Design

A Passive House is a very well-insulated, virtually air-tight building that is primarily heated by passive solar gain and by internal gains from people, electrical equipment, etc. Energy losses are minimized. Any remaining heat demand is provided by an extremely small source. Avoidance of heat gain through shading and window orientation also helps to limit any cooling load, which is similarly minimized. An energy recovery ventilator provides a constant, balanced fresh air supply. The result is an impressive system that not only saves up to 90% of space heating costs, but also provides a uniquely terrific indoor air quality.

A Passive House is a comprehensive system. "Passive" describes well this system's underlying receptivity and retention capacity. Working with natural resources, free solar energy is captured and applied efficiently, instead of relying predominantly on ‘active’ systems to bring a building to ‘zero’ energy. High performance triple-glazed windows, super-insulation, an airtight building shell, limitation of thermal bridging and balanced energy recovery ventilation make possible extraordinary reductions in energy use and carbon emission.

The Passive House concept is a comprehensive approach to cost-efficient, high quality, healthy and sustainable construction. The concept is easy to understand:

1. Contemporary construction is quite airtight; therefore the air replacement from infiltration is not sufficient. Ventilating by opening windows is not a convincing strategy either. Getting a sufficient volume of fresh air is not just a question of comfort, but a requirement for healthy living conditions. Therefore mechanical ventilation is the key technology for all new construction as well as refurbishment of existing buildings. Mechanical ventilation will work in all cold and all hot climates since in an airtight house, the heating and cooling energy required will be significantly less.

2. Even though mechanical ventilation systems raise initial investment costs, if designed efficiently they will reduce energy costs significantly, eventually paying off the initial cost. Ventilation units suitable for Passive Houses allow for an economic operation.

3. Now we explain the central "trick" of the Passive House concept: The fresh air needed is entering the room anyhow. If one could use this air to cover the heating load, without increasing the mass flow, without re-circulated air, without noise and without drafts - then the ventilation will pay off a second time.

4. This concept of "fresh air heating" is only possible in a building with superior thermal insulation, just like a Passive House. For experts: This is the defining requirement; the maximum heat load should be lower than 10 W/m², allowing the fresh air to carry the heat load.

Passive Houses require superior design and components with respect to:

• insulation

• design without thermal bridges

• air tightness

• ventilation with heat recovery

• comfort windows und

• innovative heating technology

To realize an optimal interaction of all components, an energy balance of the building has to be worked out.

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Technology 2

DQS1 - Tech 2-  2010 Program

Period
1. 3 to 4 hrs Courses @ 15 Saturdays am
Coursework per week

• Week no 1.Pick any building from your Technology 1 Final Presentation. (Subject to Approval)
• Week no 2. Develop the Plans
• Week no 3. Sections and Elevations
• Week no 4. Detail Design
• Week no 5.Specific Design Detailing in different scales and presentation
• Week no 6.Presentation of your work - Stage 1
• Week no 7.Services Drawings
• Week no 8.Specification Writing
• Week no 9.Bill of Quantities
• Week no 10.Tender Docs
• Week No 11. Cost Estimate
• Week no 12. Presentation of your work - Stage 2
• Week No 13.Preparation & Submission of Portfolio
• Week No 14. Project wirting
• Week no 15.Revision for Final Exams

Course Details

1. Weekly Lectures
2. Weekly Presentation and research
3. 30% Coursework
4. 70% Exams 

Custom Made Buildings and Services

Starting this January 23, 2010

Green Star

Green Building Council of Australia

Green Star is a comprehensive, national, voluntary environmental rating system that evaluates the environmental design and construction of buildings and, with 11 per cent of Australia's CBD commercial office buildings Green Star certified, building green is now a business imperative.



Green Star was developed for the property industry in order to:

•Establish a common language;


•Set a standard of measurement for green buildings;


•Promote integrated, whole-building design;


•Recognise environmental leadership;


•Identify building life-cycle impacts; and


•Raise awareness of green building benefits.
 
http://www.gbca.org.au

BREEAM

BREEAM, The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method., also

BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) is most widely used environmental assessment method for buildings.

BREEAM has dominated environmental assessment of UK buildings for nearly 20 years.
BREEAM has expanded massively, going from an original report in 1990 with a 19-page BRE report with 27 credits available, to a massive 350-page technical guide (for the office version) with 105 credits.

BREEAM is a tool that allows the owners, users and designers of buildings to review and improve environmental performance throughout the life of a building. It is a widely accepted and respected scheme that sets a benchmark for environmental performance and provides a wide range of benefits. It is independent and authoritative, being based on many years of construction and environmental research carried out at BRE together with the input and experience of the construction and property industries, Government and buildng regulators

The BREEAM-certificate is a method for environmental certification of properties which takes a holistic approach in environment and sustainability by criteria for global aspects, resource management, building materials and energy use. The certification is carried out and verified by an independent third part by the British environmental organization BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method).

The principles of BREEAM have also spread across the world. The US Green Building Council launched its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in 1998. While similar methods have also sprung up, such as Greenstar in Australia and CASBEE in Japan, BREEAM and LEED are the main methods currently in use.

Sources
http://www.bre.co.uk/
http://www.breeam.org/

What is CO2?
CO2 is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. Greenhouse gases are the gases present in the Earth’s atmosphere that stop heat escaping into space, keeping the planet warm enough for life. CO2 is probably the most significant of the greenhouse gases as it accounts for the largest proportion of the 'trace gases' in the atmosphere. It is thought that it's been in the atmosphere for over 4 billion of the Earth's 4.6 billion year geological history.

How is it created?
Atmospheric CO2 comes from a number of natural sources, mainly the decay of plants, volcanic eruptions and as a waste product of animal respiration.

It is removed from the atmosphere by dissolving in water (especially the surface of oceans) and through photosynthesis in plants. This is when plants use light energy, CO2, and H2O to make sugar.

The amount of CO2 taken out of the atmosphere is almost perfectly balanced with the amount put back into the atmosphere by respiration and decay. Small changes as a result of human activities can have a large impact on this delicate balance.

Why have CO2 levels increased over the last two hundred years?
Nobody knows for certain, but it is generally believed that an increase in the use of fossil fuels is responsible. Since the Industrial Revolution we have burnt fossil fuels to provide our light, heat and to run our cars. The trouble is that when we burn fossil fuels, we release CO2 into the atmosphere.

This has resulted in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increasing by more than 30%.

The best case scenario for the increase in CO2 emissions predicts that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will reach double the level of before the Industrial Revolution, in 2100. The worst case scenario brings this forward to 2045.

What happens if there is too much carbon in the atmosphere?
If there is too much CO2 in the atmosphere it increases the "greenhouse effect", trapping heat that would normally escape into the atmosphere. This causes the planet to heat up, which is believed to be the cause of climate change. Climate change is widely predicted to have a devastating impact upon the planet and people around the world.

What is your carbon footprint?
A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases we produce. It is measured in units of CO2.

The average person’s carbon footprint in the UK is 9,400 kg, that's nearly nine and half tonnes!

Roshan Seebundhun, Architect
Reference http://www.co2now.org/

Intelligent Buildings

An intelligent building is a dynamic and responsive architecture that provides every occupant with productive, cost effective and environmentally approved conditions through a continuous interaction amongst its four basic elements: places (fabric, structure, facilities); processes (automation, control systems); people (services, users) and management (maintenance, performance in use) and the inter-relationship between them.

Roshan Seebundhun, Architect

Group Discussion

Dear All

Please check the site below and post your comment as group discussion

http://www.sustainablesites.org

A maximum bonus mark of (10) is allocated to students while participating in the discussion.

This will save you on the next assignment.

Best of Luck

Roshan Seebundhun, Architect

Assignment No 3

Students will submit their chosen site that best describes their brief as proposed in Assignment No 2. Of course further development on the brief would be required at a later stage. This assignment is a development whereby the student will be acquainted to site properties, orientation, plot usage and coverage, existing constraints, mitigation factors, sustainability, water efficiency, energy, materials and resources and existing environment characteristics, in order to develop their master plan further to a sustainable development.

Roshan Seebundhun, Architect

Sustainable Development - Assignment No 3

Sustainable development was defined by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development in the 1987 Brundtland Report as “those paths of social, economic and political progress that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” In 1993 – a year after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro – the World Congress of Architects defined sustainability for the architectural fraternity as follows:

Sustainability means meeting our needs today without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

UIA/AIA World Congress of Architects, June 1993

A more recent – and broader – definition is the following of 1996:

The concept of sustainability relates to the maintenance and enhancement of environmental, social and economic resources, in order to meet the needs of current and future generations. The three components of sustainability are:
• Environmental sustainability – which requires that natural capital remains intact. This means that the source and sink functions of the environment should not be degraded. Therefore, the extraction of renewable resources should not exceed the rate at which they are renewed, and the absorptive capacity to the environment to assimilate wastes should not be exceeded. Furthermore, the extraction of non-renewable resources should be minimised and should not exceed agreed minimum strategic levels.
• Social sustainability – which requires that the cohesion of society and its ability to work towards common goals be maintained. Individual needs, such as those for health and well-being, nutrition, shelter, education and cultural expression should be met.
• Economic sustainability – which occurs when development, which moves towards social and environmental sustainability, is financially feasible.

Source: Gilbert, Stevenson, Girardet, Stren, 1996

Roshan Seebundhun, Architect

Proposed Site Plan - Free Size

Site Example on Google Earth

LATE SUBMISSION of Assignments

LATE SUBMISSION of Assignments
We reserve the right to assess an assignment at pass/fail if the assignment is submitted after the due date and no extension has been sought and granted. Subject to this right, as a general rule, the following policy applies where an assignment is submitted late and no extension has been sought and granted:
• One business day late: Two mark penalty deducted from student's result for the assignment or not more than 25%
• Up to five business days late: Five mark penalty deducted from student's result for the assignment or not more than 50%
• Up to 10 business days late: Assignment assessed pass/fail
• More than 10 business days late: Assignment not accepted
We shall inform students who have not submitted their assignment by the due date (and no extension has been sought and granted), requesting a response within five days. If there is no response from the student within five days, a fail grade is recorded when assessment for all students in the subject is being completed.
Extensions (where an extension has been sought and granted) and the research assignment is not handed in within the period of time allowed by the extension:
We reserved the right to assess an assignment at pass/fail if an extension has been sought and granted and the assignment is not submitted within the period of time allowed by the extension.
Subject to this right, as a general rule, the following policy applies where an extension has been sought and granted and the assignment is not submitted within the period of time allowed by the extension (the dates referred to below are the dates for the submission of the research assignment in accordance with the extension):